shttp://www.laweekly.com/index.php?option=com_lawcontent&&task=view&&id=12468&&Itemid=47
Link to original LA Weekly article referenced to in this article.
It's a long and interesting read. Note than another large publisher-Houghton Mifflin, i.e., not just Ballantine-, is implicated. At issue are questions of Houghton Mifflin passing off fiction as 'memoir' and Barrus, ala' Ward Churchill, representing himself as something that he isn't. AND, the utter failure of Houghton-Mifflin, Esquire,.... to authenticate 'Nasdijj'.
A good bit of the article also explores the issue of non Native Americans hijacking Native American genre.
My dad often admonished me to 'don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you read'. If he was alive today, I suspect he would revise downward.
read it!! thanks much for the link to this fraud