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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... 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 significance . Set against Smith's other writings it ...
... notes , some pon- dered memories , and some long - absorbed observations about white invasion to put into his column . It seems improbable that he contrived this whole speech suddenly and from scratch in a week or two of 1887 ; that ...
... note - not in the chapter on early settlement but in the long final chapter " Men of Seattle , " as part of the biographical entry on Henry A. Smith . On balance , this version trades one set of typo- graphical errors for another , and ...
... notes about its origins . But it is still featured in others , as an authentic voice crying out of the wil- derness of the American past . " When set against this modern foreground of textual tinkering and distortion , the old page of ...
... note , to help later readers understand an anachronism . Another is the casual use of an untranslatable Indian expression . In the very first paragraph of the speech , Smith interrupts the flow of a sentence with a parenthesis of ...