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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... AMERICA'S REPLY 4. Answers from Afar 73 5. The Answers of Governor Stevens 99 6. Remembered Places , Remembered Voices 137 References 157 Index 165 PREFACE THE CHAPTERS THAT FOLLOW attempt to probe , weigh CONTENTS Contents.
... voices that answer this speech , whatever its source may be . The central question of Seattle's speech is the rela- tion of a people to the land , and in this respect the speech closely resembles other American texts of its time ...
... voice , but many voices out of the American past ; they have echoed not at a distance but deep within . My work on this book has been fostered directly by X PREFACE M.
... voice of an Indian of the far wilderness protesting against the 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 ...
... , towered a foot above the Governor . He wore his blanket like the toga of a Roman senator , and he did not have to strain his famous voice , which everyone agreed was audible and distinct 5 ◅ 1 : THE LEGENDARY TABLEAU.