SOURCE: A review of The Heirs of Columbus, in World Literature Today, Vol. 66, No. 2, Spring, 1992, p. 387.

In the following brief review, Warrior asserts that in Vizenor's novel The Heirs of Columbus, the author takes shreds of a "tragic history and claims them as property of the liberating liberal trickster."

The Heirs of Columbus, Gerald Vizenor's fourth novel, is a compelling and rewarding contribution to the cacophonous chorus of voices in this quincentenary year. The wild fable [de]centers on the exploits of a group of this continent's Natives who claim to be direct descendants of the famed Genoan explorer. Columbus, in Vizenor's telling, was actually the son of Mayans who traveled from the New World to the Old. Christopher raised money from the crown of Spain to make his way back home. His heirs now live at the headwaters of the Mississippi and are looking for a way...