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Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.
Chief Seattle
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Chief Seattle
Age: 80 †
Born: 1786
Born: January 1
Died: 1866
Died: June 7
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Evergreen State
Si'ahl
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See-ahth
Chief Si'ahl
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Chief Seathl
Chief See-ahth
Seattle
si?al
Chief si?al
Noah
Chief Noah
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How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
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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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Earth does not belong to us we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
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We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters the deer, the horse, the great eagle: these are our brothers. All things are connected like the blood which unites one's family.
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Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
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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.
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There is no death, only a change of worlds.
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When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then
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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.
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What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit
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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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Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
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Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man ... cannot be exempt from the common destiny.
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We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.
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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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Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
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All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
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To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
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Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.
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