The World of Chief Seattle

The World of Chief Seattle

Author: Warren Jefferson

Publisher: Native Voices Books

Published: 2011-06-10

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1570679886

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Chief Seattle gave his now famous speech in 1854 during treaty negotiations with the U.S. government, which was intent on forcing the Native people of Washington's Puget Sound onto reservations. This book puts Chief Seattle's life into the context of his time and gives an historical account of Suquamish from pre-contact time to the present. It includes the tribe's authorized version of Chief Seattle's famous speech. The book was written in cooperation with the Suquamish tribe and they receive a portion of the royalties. Includes the complete speech and many rare, turn-of-the-century photographs of village life. 52 black and white photographs


Brother Eagle, Sister Sky

Brother Eagle, Sister Sky

Author: Susan Jeffers

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2002-07-22

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 0142301329

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The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth. The great American Indian Chief Seattle spoke these words over a hundred years ago. His remarkably relevant message of respect for the Earth and every creature on it has endured the test of time and is imbued with passion born of love of the land and the environment. Illustrated by award-winning artist Susan Jeffers, the stirring pen-and-color drawings bring a wide array of Native Americans to life while capturing the splendor of nature and the land. Children and parents alike will enjoy the timeless, poignant message presented in this beautifully illustrated picture book. "Together, Seattle's words and Jeffers's images create a powerful message; this thoughtful book deserves to be pondered and cherished by all." (Publishers Weekly ) Illustrated by Susan Jeffers.


The Eyes of Chief Seattle

The Eyes of Chief Seattle

Author: Suquamish Museum

Publisher: Book Publishing Company

Published: 1995-08-01

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9780963470607

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The Eyes of Chief Seattle marks the beginning of an increased understanding by the general public of the lives and experiences of the original inhabitants of northwest Washington. It was compiled through the research and collection efforts of the Suquamish Tribal Cultural Center, which has received national recognition for its study of Native American peoples and their struggle to adapt to the ways of a foreign culture. Beautifully complemented with turn-of-the-century black and white photographs and full color photos of tribal artifacts from the Suquamish museum.


Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name

Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name

Author: David M. Buerge

Publisher: Sasquatch Books

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1632171368

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The first thorough historical account of the great Washington State city and its hero, Chief Seattle—the Native American war leader who advocated for peace and strove to create a successful hybrid racial community. When the British, Spanish, and then Americans arrived in the Pacific Northwest, it may have appeared to them as an untamed wilderness. In fact, it was a fully settled and populated land. Chief Seattle was a powerful representative from this very ancient world. Here, historian David Buerge threads together disparate accounts of the time from the 1780s to the 1860s—including native oral histories, Hudson Bay Company records, pioneer diaries, French Catholic church records, and historic newspaper reporting. Chief Seattle had gained power and prominence on Puget Sound as a war leader, but the arrival of American settlers caused him to reconsider his actions. He came to embrace white settlement and, following traditional native practice, encouraged intermarriage between native people and the settlers—offering his own daughter and granddaughters as brides—in the hopes that both peoples would prosper. Included in this account are the treaty signings that would remove the natives from their historic lands, the roles of such figures as Governor Isaac Stevens, Chiefs Leschi and Patkanim, the Battle at Seattle that threatened the existence of the settlement, and the controversial Chief Seattle speech that haunts to this day the city that bears his name.


Ghosts of Seattle Past

Ghosts of Seattle Past

Author: Jaimee Garbacik

Publisher: Chin Music

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781634059640

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Place and politics collide in a multimedia free-for-all--a ghost tour of a boom city trying to find its soul.


Answering Chief Seattle

Answering Chief Seattle

Author: Albert Furtwangler

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0295800380

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Over the years, Chief Seattle's famous speech has been embellished, popularized, and carved into many a monument, but its origins have remained inadequately explained. Understood as a symbolic encounter between indigenous America, represented by Chief Seattle, and industrialized or imperialist America, represented by Isaac L Stevens, the first governor of Washington Territory, it was first published in a Seattle newspaper in 1887 by a pioneer who claimed he had heard Seattle (or Sealth) deliver it in the 1850s. No other record of the speech has been found, and Isaac Stevens's writings do not mention it Yet it has long been taken seriously as evidence of a voice crying out of the wilderness of the American past. Answering Chief Seattle presents the full and accurate text of the 1887 version and traces the distortions of later versions in order to explain the many layers of its mystery. This book also asks how the speech could be heard and answered, by reviewing its many contexts. Mid-century ideas about land, newcomers, ancestors, and future generations informed the ways Stevens and his contemporaries understood Chief Seattle and recreated him as a legendary figure.


Chief Seattle speech - We are part of the earth and it is part of us.

Chief Seattle speech - We are part of the earth and it is part of us.

Author: Herbert Brandt

Publisher: Saxo

Published:

Total Pages: 43

ISBN-13: 1311991123

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Chief Seattle, 1786-1866, was Northwest coast Indian of the Suquami tribe and should give name to the city of Seattle. He played an important part of the whites peace treaties. As a prelude to negotiating treaties with the United States, he delivered a speech to Governor Stevens in 1854 and it is this speech that is called "Chief Seattle's speech." Chief Seattle's beautiful speech from 1854 have through the ages been interpreted and construed in many ways. Here you have the opportunity to read the speech in its two main versions. Ted Perrys version of the Speech. And Henry A. Smidts version of the Speech published in Seattle Sunday Star October 29, 1887.


Answering Chief Seattle

Answering Chief Seattle

Author: Albert Furtwangler

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780295976334

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This book traces the origins of one of the most famous speeches in American history and how our responses to it, over more than a century, show the changing tide of Native-white relations.