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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... modern Americans can trace , even faintly , in the records of Henry A. Smith - and whose admonitions we ignore at our peril ? Or are we inescapably bound to the world of Isaac Stevens , and to the new order of settlement he helped to ...
... modern scholarly research . It brought together much information and for years was regarded as the expert ac- count of Chief Seattle's life ; it is cited , for example , as the leading source about him in Dictionary of American ...
... modern versions of the speech - put together by William Arrowsmith and Ted Perry - also make peculiar modifi- cations of Seattle's words . When Arrowsmith prepared his text in the late 1960s , he was a professor of classics at the ...
... modern testament . Words that take their force from a dramatic script , in the voice of a revered Indian leader , nonetheless take their force from their sensitivity alone , or their articulation of a much - needed idea . " This text ...
... modern foreground of textual tinkering and distortion , the old page of the Star has a refreshing crudeness and simplicity . It seems to be just what it is and no more : a pioneer's recollections , rescued from old notes or a diary and ...