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To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
Chief Seattle
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Chief Seattle
Age: 80 †
Born: 1786
Born: January 1
Died: 1866
Died: June 7
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Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.
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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.
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Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
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Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.
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