Chief Seattle's Speech (1854) Quotes

“My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.”
― Chief Seattle, Chief Seattle's Speech (1854)

“The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.”
― Chief Seattle, Chief Seattle's Speech (1854)

“Let him 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 words. [...] My words are like the stars that never change.”
― Chief Seattle, Chief Seattle's Speech (1854)