Chief Seattle
Chief Seattle
Chief Seattlewas a Dkhw'Duw'Abshchief. A prominent figure among his people, he pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, forming a personal relationship with "Doc" Maynard. The city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, was named after him. A widely publicized speech arguing in favor of ecological responsibility and respect of Native Americans' land rights had been attributed to him. However, what he actually said has been lost through translation and rewriting...
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night waste bed
Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
god dream greatness
How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness?
god brother men
The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?
god land people
Our God, the Great Spirit, seems also to have forsaken us. Your God makes your people wax stronger every day. Soon they will fill all the land.
god strong father
Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and leads him by the hand as a father leads an infant son.
travel memories adventure
Take only memories, leave only footprints.
wilderness connected all-things
This We Know. All Things Are Connected
memories footprint conservation
Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!
children native-american web-of-life
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.
blood web-of-life animal-rights
All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
web-of-life earth harm
To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
son earth
We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
men air white-man
The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.
beautiful death mother
The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful Earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the Earth and it is part of us.