Answering Chief SeattleUniversity of Washington Press, 2011年10月1日 - 192 頁 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. |
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... claimed that Seattle ( or Sealth ) had made this speech at a great meeting on the waterfront in the 1850s , a good thirty years earlier . The speech was a reply to some remarks by the first territorial governor , Isaac I. Stevens , and ...
... claim or feeling for a place in the Far West . Jefferson , Whitman , Hawthorne , Seattle , Stevens , and others we will meet all provide thoughtful but partial and very different answers . One final note about my own stake in this ...
... claims of westward - marching power and usurpation . It seems to pit truth against injustice and wisdom against willful blindness , and to resonate through the decades with ever - more - evident depths of prophetic accuracy . It also ...
... claim to speak for the place . Within the speech itself , this point becomes explicit . Seattle claims to speak for the land and for his ancestors and kinfolk who have inhabited every fea- ture of it , and who will continue to abide ...
... claims a number of distinct advantages . It is the earliest surviving record . It comes from a direct witness . It dates from a period still early in the history of what would become Washington State ( it was still Washington Territory ...