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This Precious Earth
60 pages
Published January 1, 1994
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Chief Seattle
17 books47 followersChief Seattle lived from approximately 1790 to 1866, in the Pacific Northwest region of what is now the United States. He was a chief of the Suquamish and the Duwamish and was present at treaty negotiations that took place with the white settlers in the 1850s. It was at one of these negotiations that Chief Seattle delivered a speech in his native tongue, a speech that has since—in a variety of forms—served as the basis of ecological movements around the world.
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May 10, 2019
"One thing we know: our God is the same God. This earth is precious to Him. Even the white man cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We shall see".
This was a random pick at Vinnies or somewhere like. An 1854 letter written by Chief Seattle - a Native Indian elder, I take it - regarding selling the land to the "white man", imploring the new stewards to take care of it, to love it like it were their mother or their brother. This is actually a beautiful, concise treatise on the sacredness of the naturally beautiful land of America, something that is just as poignant today as it would have been then, if not more so.
This was a random pick at Vinnies or somewhere like. An 1854 letter written by Chief Seattle - a Native Indian elder, I take it - regarding selling the land to the "white man", imploring the new stewards to take care of it, to love it like it were their mother or their brother. This is actually a beautiful, concise treatise on the sacredness of the naturally beautiful land of America, something that is just as poignant today as it would have been then, if not more so.
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