A forgotten gem

Our member Gren Courtland entertained us this week with an article he found hidden in this filing cabinet since 1978.

He read out the 1854 response by "Chief Seattle" to Washington's offer to buy a large area of Indian land.  His message was indeed profound and a strong one for ecological responsibility.  It ended with "...  when the buffalo are slaughtered, the wild horses tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires. ... The end of living and the beginning of survival." 

 

Chief Seattle, after whom the city of Seattle was named, died on this day in 1866.  

 

See www.mountainman.com.au/thechief.html for more.