"Through a brilliant use of interlocking characters, themes and phrases, Alexie crafts The Business of Fancydancing's 40 poems and five stories into a seamless, searing tribute to the people of the Spokane and Coeur d'Alene reservations.
Alexie's writing builds upon the naked realism and ironic wonder of Blackfeet/Gros Ventre writer James Welch ...[and] adds a surrealist twist to convey comparable irony in his poem "Evolution" ... By the end of the poem, Buffalo Bill has taken "everything the Indians have to offer" and then changes the shop's sign from pawn dealer to 'THE MUSEUM OF NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES.'"
- Kadwick, Kent "In a Review of The Business of FancyDancing and Old Shirts & New Skins"
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