Nastas

 is a minor character featured in Red Dead Redemption.

Background
Nastas is a Native American. He is openly critical of government policy, and also, the criminal response of his fellow tribesmen joining Dutch's Gang. He is initially an informant for the Bureau of Investigation, under Edgar Ross.

Interactions
John is told that Nastas has arranged for Dutch Van Der Linde to be present on the Wreck of the Serendipity, for John to capture. The meeting turns out to be a trap, Nastas having been beaten and tied to a chair in Van Der Linde's stead. John and Archer Fordham rescue him, escaping alongside Ross in an automobile.

Nastas is later he is seen reluctantly working alongside Harold MacDougal. MacDogual regularly showers Nastas with patronizing ignorance of natural sciences and Native culture, while believing himself superior. During certain missions, Nastas expresses his fears for the loss of the forests, and the buffalo going extinct as well, regarding American "civilization" with resigned disdain. In his words "no one respects the land anymore". John, identifies with this, after a long journey experiencing encroaching federalism and technology.

Because of their conflicting worldviews, Nastas gets into constant arguments with MacDougal. MacDougal dismisses traditional cultural knowledge, with which Nastas is adept; accurately commenting on the over-hunting of Buffalo. Contrary, MacDougal argues back invoking his poor understanding of natural selection and ethnocentric attitudes. John Marston appears to sympathize with Nastas, acknowledging his insight. John additional appear to view Nastas with respect, when he unconditionally accompanies in an attempt to confront Dutch Van Der Linde.

Nastas is instantly killed after being shot in the head by a member of Dutch's Gang, during a confrontation between Macdougal and the Native American members of the gang.

Trivia
"Nastas" is a Navajo name which means "curve-like foxtail grass."