Chief Seattle - Environmental speech 1854

In 1854, then U.S. President Franklin Pierce offered to `buy` the land from the Suquamish Indian Tribe whose leader was Chief Seattle . To make a long story short he took the evil white man`s money but not before writing perhaps the most incredible environmental speech ever!

Here is a link to the speech!
http://www.savethefrogs.com/students/chief-seattle.html

and a link to Chief Seattle!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Seattle

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[justcallmethelma]

i was very touched by this! u have such a nice speaking voice as well as singing! how sad this speech truly is! i loved the indian music in the background, have always loved thier music! and the beat of a drum! esp their way! that was extremely quite the speech he gave! that u gave voice to! esp loved that first song...or chant or whatever u call that! i think a girlfriend had it on a cd along time ago! he had alot of very very great points, even if i am a sucky white person..lol!

[coolanddark]

@justcallmethelma Thanks Kathy! THat song at the beginning is called the end of innocence by Enigma I think. The Indian part is so great!

[LarkeSongs]

cool speech,and very well-read Dan, love it

[frozenwhitebear]

this is great, I fully tune in! thanks Dan!! great memorial too!!

[julanenova]

"Where is the thicket? Gone. ... the end of living and the beginning of survival" - very insightful message.

"Return to Innocence" has an interesting history: Enigma had sampled a chanting song by husband & wife (native Korean?) w/o their permission; this was later resolved by giving the couple royalty rights.

The original B+W video is unusual too .. about an old man going thru life in reverse, "returning" to his birth .. filmed in Spain.

Thanks for posting this!