After a quick summary of things before Columbus, Mr. Highwater makes an extensive survey of recent Indian painting [in Song from the Earth]…. Aesthetic rows liven up the test, which includes interviews with current artists of varied training and principles. The most interesting talker is Blackbear Bosin, who explains, "In my paintings there is absolutely no recognition—none of our defeat. I am describing America as if 1492 simply had never happened." Bosin states plainly an attitude detectable in the work of many of his colleagues; it probably accounts for the strain of prettified romanticism which the Anglo eye perceives…. (p. 117)

Phoebe-Lou Adams, in The Atlantic Monthly (copyright © 1977 by The Atlantic Monthly Company, Boston, Mass.; reprinted with permission), March, 1977.