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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... seems a just one , and I think my folks will accept it and will retire to the reservation you offer them , and we will dwell apart and in peace , for the words of the great white chief seem to be the voice of nature speaking to my ...
... seem to lie dumb as they swelter in the sun along the silent seashore in solemn grandeur thrill with memories of past events connected with the fate of my people , and the very dust under your feet responds more lovingly to our ...
... seems to tran- scend the talents of the author of the column ; Seattle's language , even filtered through Smith's , seems far more nobly direct , coher- ent , and plangent than the sentimental prose that frames it . It also stands apart ...
... seems to be worked up from incomplete 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 ...
... seems improbable that he contrived this whole speech suddenly and from scratch in a week or two of 1887 ; that line of development does not fit with other evidence , including his other writings . Still , we have to mea- sure Smith's ...