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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... claims to dramatize Seattle as the towering spokesman of his people and his place . Finally , it reports a kind of speech that we now have to see as typical of white men's preju- dices and expectations about Indians : a noble , sad ...
... claimed to hear ? We can find some teasing clues , but we have to bear in mind that long before Smith's time others had " heard ” and read Indian voices and taught others just how to listen . Their ex- ample should chasten our ...
... yet they have padded it out with some apparatus or claims of schol- arly respectability . Important reprintings in 1891 , 1931 , and 1969 have made both kinds of distortion and fostered other mistaken 22 THE SPEECH AND ITS SETTING A.
... claimed , for example , that Seattle was speaking not to Governor Stevens but to other 1. Rich puts this passage in italics at the end of the speech , also in a separate paragraph : " Dead - did I say ? There is no death . Only a change ...
... claimed to see through what he called " Smith's fustian version " or " the dense patina of white literary rhetoric ” ; but in fact he had to rely on Smith as " the only source ” anyone could use , he followed Smith closely at many ...