Chief Seattle

When reading Chief Seattle's speech i couldn't even imagin being in his shoes. He talks about how how once his "people covered this land like a flood-tide moving with the wind across the shell-littered flats. But that time is gone, and with it the greatness of tribes now almost forgotten." Wow... He also talks about how God has forgotten about his red children and leads his white children like a father leading this son. Not only is he talking about losing his land and being forgotten by the white people but also by God. How lonely that must have felt and then been asked to take a deal to only live on a designated part of the land where the white people tell them to go. I think that something that really stood out to me was that he was accepting of the deal with only one condition. "We will never be denied the right to visit, at any time, the graves of our fathers and our friends." That line is what really hit home for me. He talks about how his people love the land and will not leave when they pass on but stay around. I really liked the messages that Chief Seattle sent in his speech but I couldnt help but feel sad for him and his people.