give a critical appreciation of chief seattle's speech
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Chief Seattle's speech was given circa 1864 and powerfully captures the emotions of the native people of North America.
Since the Europeans arrived and the founding of USA, the native Americans were constantly driven out of their lands, persecuted, killed and at many times enslaved.
When Europeans came to the land of Chief Seattle, they offered him a truce which many native Americans were not so happy about.
However Chief Seattle had seen how the various tribes around him such as Apache had been eliminated due to superior technology and believed that his own tribe will face the same fate.
In the speech, he argued, or better made a plea to his tribesman to give up fighting and no matter how hard it might be, accept that the White man has won. He argued that only by accepting this, will they be able to move on and life a more peaceful life in their appointed land.
Some have argued that the contents of the speech are fake and altered over the years, but the overall tone does capture the trauma faced by millions of native Americans at the time.
Since the Europeans arrived and the founding of USA, the native Americans were constantly driven out of their lands, persecuted, killed and at many times enslaved.
When Europeans came to the land of Chief Seattle, they offered him a truce which many native Americans were not so happy about.
However Chief Seattle had seen how the various tribes around him such as Apache had been eliminated due to superior technology and believed that his own tribe will face the same fate.
In the speech, he argued, or better made a plea to his tribesman to give up fighting and no matter how hard it might be, accept that the White man has won. He argued that only by accepting this, will they be able to move on and life a more peaceful life in their appointed land.
Some have argued that the contents of the speech are fake and altered over the years, but the overall tone does capture the trauma faced by millions of native Americans at the time.
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Chief Seattle (Si’ahl) (c. 1786 – June 7, 1866) was a public leader, the chief of the native American (Red Indian) Suquamish and Duwamish tribes. The American city Seattle is named after him. He is especially known for his ‘speech’, or sometimes referred to as ‘letter’, delivered in 1854. This speech was a response to the American Government’s land treaty to buy the native lands proposed by Issac Stevens, the Governor of Washington Territory.
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