Chief Seattle

I found it interesting how in the Chief's speech he compares people to nature and plants and trees. It seems to show a strong sense of concern for what the "white man" has done to Seattle's land. I liked the part in which the Chief talks about how he blames his people for filling their hearts with hatred for the white man. This speech calls out the white man it shows how they had taken advantage of the Native Americans. The Natives understood that it was all lies and could never be the way it had been explained to them. I enjoyed the part where he said "How can your father be our father, and make us prosper and send us dreams of future greatness?" Seattle claims that the white man and the red man must stay separate because the white mans God because he is prejudiced. The Chief realizes that the better option for his people is to go to the land reservation and not fight the white man. Seattle looks at the reservation as the dying place of the tribe. He knows that they have been cut down from a glorious people to being pushed into a sort of captivity. I find this a moving speech there is much emotion in it and it shows a once strong man giving up.