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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... speaking with sonorous authority . On the other side is an evident Petty Official , short in stature , using fine words but with- out much range or depth . The two stand in a wasteland - the for- est of the Indians become the stumpy ...
... 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 there long ...
... speaking out against industrial pollution . These set- tings can be derived or elaborated from this source and its lan- guage very easily , but they are not what Smith has immediately in mind . In Smith's version , Seattle is rather an ...
... speak : Old Chief Seattle was the largest Indian I ever saw , and by far the noblest looking . He stood six feet full in his moccasins , was broad shouldered , deep chested , and finely proportioned . His eyes were large , intelligent ...
... speaking to my people out of the thick darkness that is fast gathering around them like a dense fog floating inward from a midnight sea . It matters but little where we pass the remainder of our days . THEY ARE NOT MANY , The Indian's ...