..". creates a new definition of American Indian literary texts as a self-representational genre. This is an intelligent and insightful application of post-modern critical methods to American Indian texts. The scope of the study is broad and ambitious, and the attempt to define Indian self-representations from colonial times to the present is innovative and instructive." --Raymond J. DeMallie

..". very suggestive, provocative, engaging... --Studies in American Indian Literatures

..". Murray's book establishes itself as the single best introduction to Native American text-making...