[We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf is an] argumentative rather than informative book…. [The author] adopts a controversial style reminiscent of his forefathers' fighting style: avoid pitched battles, loose a shower of arrows, and dart off. The Parthians fought the Romans this way, the Turks the Crusaders; though it is not magnificent, it is war. Mr. Deloria's paleface readers are not persuaded or enlightened; they are simply attacked. Here and there, Mr. Deloria seems to be starting a conversation, but it always turns into a war whoop.

"Briefly Noted: 'We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf'," in The New Yorker (© 1970 by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc.), Vol. 46, No. 36, October 24, 1970, p. 76.