[Christie Harris has] rediscovered and reproduced a dignified and inspiring picture of [Haida] culture in a work of epic proportions [Raven's Cry]. Painstaking research and intense absorption in anthropological details have enabled the author to write with rare commitment and involvement from the Haida point of view. She sings the saga of the three chieftains, of their larger-than-life deeds, of the people they led, of the gods they honored. Her account is richly adorned with details of custom, ceremony, and costume. Dealing as it does in a highly artistic and complicated manner with the whole range of human emotion and character, it makes demands of the reader but rewards him with new understanding of the forces that shape civilizations…. This distinguished work, probably classified as fiction, will occupy a respected position in historical, anthropological, and story collections. (pp. 574-75)

Priscilla L. Moulton, in The Horn Book Magazine (copyright...