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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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Earth does not belong to us we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
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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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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors we borrow it from our children
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. . . the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony and man - all belong to the same family. . . . The White Man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.
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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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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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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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Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
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I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.
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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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