SOURCE: "Tonto was an Uncle Tomahawk," in Washington Post Book World, October 4, 1970, p. 4.

In the following review, Eby discusses the commercial relationship between white America and its use of land versus the Indians' veneration of nature as presented by Deloria in We Talk, You Listen.

Adding to the already formidable list of "problems" bedeviling white America is the rise, in recent years, of Red Power. Armed not with tomahawks but with briefcases chock-full of broken promises and treaty violations, the Indian has joined other minority groups in demanding his due. Once upon a time white America could count on a docile Indian population content to subsist on mission charity and Congressional dole, with a repast now and then at the tourist trough as a reward for good behavior. Today this eleemosynary epoch seems about to end. The Indian has become militant and aggressive, and the paleface finds few...