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Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.

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Chief Seattle
Age: 80 †
Born: 1786
Born: January 1
Died: 1866
Died: June 7
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We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
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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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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 earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
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The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
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Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
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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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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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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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To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
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Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
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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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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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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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All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.
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All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
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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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We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.
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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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