Consequently, reprints of the book began to attribute the storyteller Klopinum for the story's inspiration although Cameron retained sole authorship credit and copyright.

Twice annually, in the spring and fall, women on Vancouver Island play music on the western coast and orcas go there and sway to their tunes and sing their own songs.

[6][7] The work was illustrated by Nelle Olsen who used black and white line drawings for the interior images of the story and a Northwest Coast artistic style for the cover.

[8] In Canadian Children's Literature, Kevin McCabe called Olsen's illustrations "creative and finished designs" that supported Cameron's text.

[9] Orca's Song was included in researcher Jeff Sapp's 2010 list of children's books with lesbian or gay (LG) characters.

[11] Atleo said that while transformation was present as a theme throughout Pacific Northwest Indigenous cultures, the ability of members of the same sex to reproduce was not, leading to "an underlying dissonance that Cameron cannot calm".