> "when you go into your church, you talk about god. > when we go into our teepee we talk TO god." > - Chief Seattle -
Apparently that's a fake quote, written in 1974. Most "Chief Seattle" quotes were taken from an article manufactured by an author who was writing a Hollywood-ized movie script. The fake "speech" is full of a 60s and 70s counterculture "save the earth" belief-system. Check out these two versions below and note the difference. No one took dictation during the original 1854 speech, but someone tried to reproduce it from notes: Chief Sealth's 1854 speech, reconstructed from notes at the time http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/ejournal/smith.htm Here's the fake version which has spread all over the internet: http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/ejournal/seattle.htm Reading this reconstructed original, it makes me see the 1974 movie script as an act of selfish desecration; as white-man politics silencing Chief Sealth and putting our own words in their place. Sealth said whites and indians have two different gods. The movie script says "our god is the same god." Seattle says the indians are dying out and will soon be gone. The movie script goes on about whites polluting the earth, killing buffaloe, etc., and says nothing about: "And when the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, 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, the shop, 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 are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them 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." (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-789-0775 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
