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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... language has been quoted , excerpted , and repeated in speeches , broadcasts , films , pamphlets , and children's books . It has become known worldwide as a treasure of indigenous American wisdom . Again and again the speech has been ...
... language into modern English ; a new speech , based on Arrowsmith's , but freely composed by Ted Perry in 1970-71 for an ecological filmscript ; and an adaptation of Perry's speech , made into an inscription at the Spokane World's Fair ...
... language , wrote it down ; under the flowery garlands of his translation the speech rolls like an articulate iron ... language it could have been spoken , and how much of any Indian language Smith ever knew . It is true that Smith's own ...
... language of the speech sometimes seems to tran- scend the talents of the author of the column ; Seattle's language , even filtered through Smith's , seems far more nobly direct , coher- ent , and plangent than the sentimental prose that ...
... language ; it seems to be worked up from incomplete notes of uncertain date . It filters an Indian oral performance into English and into cold print . It colors Seattle's ideas with Smith's vocabulary and Smith's sense of historical ...