http://todbrilliant.com/chief-seattle-speech/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:39:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://todbrilliant.com/chief-seattle-speech/#comment-169 Tod Brilliant Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:26:31 +0000 http://todbrilliant.com/2006/11/01/chief-seattle-speech/#comment-169 <p>Seattle never left the Puget Sound area, so far as most historians know, so he likely never saw a buffalo or a train, though he no doubt saw many white men and guns, as the two went hand in hand. Err. . .barrel in hand. The "speech" by Seattle was most likely written much later by another man, but regardless of the source, there are passages within that strike my fancy.</p> Seattle never left the Puget Sound area, so far as most historians know, so he likely never saw a buffalo or a train, though he no doubt saw many white men and guns, as the two went hand in hand. Err. . .barrel in hand. The “speech” by Seattle was most likely written much later by another man, but regardless of the source, there are passages within that strike my fancy.

]]> http://todbrilliant.com/chief-seattle-speech/#comment-168 Bobby B. Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:12:03 +0000 http://todbrilliant.com/2006/11/01/chief-seattle-speech/#comment-168 <p>Is this the same chief that saw the white man shooting buffalo from a train more than a decade before the rails reached those areas?</p> Is this the same chief that saw the white man shooting buffalo from a train more than a decade before the rails reached those areas?

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