According to Leanne Hinton, an expert in American Indian linguistics, Irataba was "an unusually eloquent and persuasive speaker" in his own language, and "probably the first Mojave to learn English".
According to Leanne Hinton, an expert in American Indian linguistics, Irataba was a great orator who was "an unusually eloquent and persuasive speaker" in his own language. She states that Irataba was "probably the first Mojave to learn English".