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

By NetSpirit

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: NetSpirit
• Release date: Feb 24, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311991126

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Chief Seattle's speech

Chief Seattle, 1786-1866, was Northwest coast Indian of the Suquami tribe and should give name to the city of Seattle. He was an important part of the whites peace treaties with the Northwest Coast Indians. 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 Chief Seattle's speech.

Chief Seattle was famous for his eloquence, and someone claimed he could be heard over long distances. He had certainly sense of staging. When he made his famous speech, he should have put his hand on the governor's head, which should also reflect the fact that he was of considerable size.

There were many Indian tribes present who spoke different languages. Then the governor's speech had first to be translated into the pidgin language that had evolved by the contact with the whites. (It is called chinook-jargon, and was a mixture of chi-nook, English and French.) After which others translated it to the various Indian languages. When the Indians spoke walked process the other way.

One of the suffer being, the 34-year-old Dr. Henry Smith, took notes, but what is not clear. He even called the notes for a fragment of Seattle's speech, Smith published a number of articles and poems, but it is only 34 years after he reproduces Chief Seattle's speech. It was part of the autumn of 1887 in a series of articles he