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The Speech of Chief Seattle
  • Language: en

The Speech of Chief Seattle

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-06
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This moving oration is one of the greatest statements ever made regarding the relationship between a people and the Earth. It is the most widely quoted speech by a Native American.

Answering Chief Seattle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 186

Answering Chief Seattle

Over the years, Chief Seattle's famous speech has been embellished, popularized, and carved into many a monument, but its origins have remained inadequately explained. Understood as a symbolic encounter between indigenous America, represented by Chief Seattle, and industrialized or imperialist America, represented by Isaac L Stevens, the first governor of Washington Territory, it was first published in a Seattle newspaper in 1887 by a pioneer who claimed he had heard Seattle (or Sealth) deliver it in the 1850s. No other record of the speech has been found, and Isaac Stevens's writings do not mention it Yet it has long been taken seriously as evidence of a voice crying out of the wilderness of the American past. Answering Chief Seattle presents the full and accurate text of the 1887 version and traces the distortions of later versions in order to explain the many layers of its mystery. This book also asks how the speech could be heard and answered, by reviewing its many contexts. Mid-century ideas about land, newcomers, ancestors, and future generations informed the ways Stevens and his contemporaries understood Chief Seattle and recreated him as a legendary figure.

Chief Seattle and the Town that Took His Name
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Chief Seattle and the Town that Took His Name

This is the first thorough historical account of Chief Seattle and his times--the story of a half-century of tremendous flux, turmoil, and violence, during which a native American war leader became an advocate for peace and strove to create a successful hybrid racial community. When the British, Spanish, and then Americans arrived in the Pacific Northwest, it may have appeared to them as an untamed wilderness. In fact, it was a fully settled and populated land. Chief Seattle was a powerful representative from this very ancient world. Historian David Buerge has been researching and writing this book about the world of Chief Seattle for the past 20 years. Buerge has threaded together disparate...

Chief Seattle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 28

Chief Seattle

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The World of Chief Seattle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

The World of Chief Seattle

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Chief Seattle gave his now famous speech in 1854 during treaty negotiations with the U.S. government, which was intent on forcing the Native people of Washington's Puget Sound onto reservations. This book puts Chief Seattle's life into the context of his time and gives a brief history of the region and its many tribes, with particular emphasis on Chief Seattle's tribe, the Suquamish.

How Can One Sell the Air?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 96

How Can One Sell the Air?

Presents the vision of Chief Seattle and his desire for all people to live in harmony with each other and the earth.

Chief Seattle
  • Language: en

Chief Seattle

Born in the late 18th century, Chief Seattle was a famous figure in the history of the American West. He was the leader of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes, which had lived near the Puget Sound for thousands of years. When white settlers discovered the abundance of this land, Seattle encouraged his people to live peacefully with the newcomers.

How Can One Sell the Air?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 46

How Can One Sell the Air?

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Chief Seattle speech - We are part of the earth and it is part of us.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 43

Chief Seattle speech - We are part of the earth and it is part of us.

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Saxo

Chief Seattle, 1786-1866, was Northwest coast Indian of the Suquami tribe and should give name to the city of Seattle. He played an important part of the whites peace treaties. As a prelude to negotiating treaties with the United States, he delivered a speech to Governor Stevens in 1854 and it is this speech that is called "Chief Seattle's speech." Chief Seattle's beautiful speech from 1854 have through the ages been interpreted and construed in many ways. Here you have the opportunity to read the speech in its two main versions. Ted Perrys version of the Speech. And Henry A. Smidts version of the Speech published in Seattle Sunday Star October 29, 1887.

The Many Speeches of Chief Seattle (Seathl)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

The Many Speeches of Chief Seattle (Seathl)

The origins of this book began with a discussion Eli Gifford had with Professor Edward Castillo, Department Chair of Native American Studies at Sonoma State University, about the historical inconsistencies in the environmental version of Chief Seattle's speech. Castillo recommended that Eli turn it into a research project. From there it evolved into a master thesis. Afterwards, Eli co-wrote How Can One Sell the Air? to correct the prevailing belief that Seattle actually spoke the words of the environmental speech. Using primary and secondary sources, this book explores the history behind the various agendas each author had in manipulating Seathl's speech. What is unique about this book is th...