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In reply to the discussion: After 10 years, I've never seen DU as crazy as it is right now. [View all]Cha
(297,123 posts)I got a whole different perspective than the spin on DU which I wasn't buying anyway.
Mahalo for Chief Seattle's speech.. poignantly beautiful.
Chief Seattle's speech about land treaty in 1854:
"Every part of this country is sacred to my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove has been hallowed by some fond memory or some sad experience of my tribe. Even the rocks which 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 lives of my people. And when the last red man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children's children think themselves alone in the field, the store, upon the highway, or in the silence of the pathless woods, they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude. At night when the streets of your cities and villages go silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people for the dead are not powerless. Dead -- did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds."
From "A Time of Gathering, Native Heritage in Washington State."
thank you! I wanted to put it in my journal #BlackLivesMatter