Chief Seattle Quotes - Page 3

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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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  Brother, Decay, May

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• 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.

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  Men, Air, White Man

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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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  Regret, Native American, Order

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• Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

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  Native American, People, Dark Woods

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• My words are like the stars that never change.

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  Stars, Never Change

  Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle (1997). “Answering Chief Seattle”, p.12, University of Washington Press

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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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  Loneliness, Men, Gone

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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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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  Beautiful, Death, Country

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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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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  God, Strong, Father

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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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  God, Land, People

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• How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness?

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  God, Dream, Greatness

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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.

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  Rely Upon, Return, Sun

  Seattle (Chief) (1980). “How can one sell the air?: the manifesto of an Indian chief”, Book Publishing Company (TN)

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