Wisdom of Chief Seattle

based on 1854 letter of Chief Seattle

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• native
• american
• earth
• day
• environment
• Seattle
• cohtv

[CougarsTears]

Big Medicine For All to draw upon and Share!

Honor and Respect to CoHTV for Perpetuating these Lessons of Life from Chief Seattle.

[CoHTV]

Thank you for the special and meaningful comment!

[DavidLakota]

Well done. Beauiful pictures and good narration.

Who made this?

[CoHTV]

Thanks! I produced this video for Earth Day.

[jobedied]

Does it matter if Chief Seattle's speech has been embellished or altered. The truth is the more science finds out about ecology and the interrelationship of all biological systems the more we see the destruction we have anointed the earth with.

Do we have the right to do this ? We have the same right as a virus has to kill it's host. We breed like viruses and wonder why we have problems. We are suppose to be intelligent. Like any species all natures rules apply to us. What ever the result.

[charlscuellar]

this is wisdom

[jfoley715]

Soundgarden- Sealth (Into The Void)

The lyrics are from this speech.

[david1austin]

the divergence of the western worldview from this vision, explains what is at the root of all of our destructiveness, to the earth, and to one another

[machwon]

@jobedied You seem to hate people and think we are a parasite. Will you be the first to show your compassion for mother earth and freeing her of the burden of your life sucking existence?

[jobedied]

@machwon Where does your paranoid mind come up with the need to sacrifice oneself. Do us all a favor and do not breed any children, your spawn would likely have your disease. You seem to be just more pollution.

[machwon]

@jobedied Will you be the first to sacrifice himself then? 

[RAYDENMORTALKOMBAT]

good video but 2 "cursi" in my opinion.

[aardvark1956]

While well-meaning, this is all based on a falsehood! Chief Seattle NEVER wrote this. Google "Chief Seattle letter fake" to find out.

[TwoTube2]

BUT I should also point out, the existence of the speech is dubious, as there is no existing physical copy to use as verification. There have also been various historians offering evidence suggesting the speech is a fabrication. Of course, that's not to suggest this message isn't poignant itself. There's no reason why we can't propagate our own wisdom for the world to enjoy. We all have words as a tool, we need not always rely upon the rhetoric of ancestors, accurate or not.

[TwoTube2]

The actual speech ends with, "Let him (the white man) 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."

[TwoTube2]

...He gave you laws but had no word for His red children whose teeming multitudes once filled this vast continent as stars fill the firmament. No; we are two distinct races with separate origins and separate destinies. There is little in common between us." This differs from the reading here of "One thing we know, there is only one god, we are brothers and sisters, children of our Mother Earth after all".