In respect and honor for Indians and there continued love for nature, i would like to share the following from: ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Volume 21, Number 3, Winter 2007 Before Aldo Leopold there was Smowhala, before E.O. Wilson there was Chief Seattle, before the environmental justice movement there was George Gillette, before Greenpeace and the Sierra Club were countless Indian bands and peopls who [resisted] and rolled back environmental invasions. an 1850 transcript in Washington territory regarding land transactions, the Suquamish / Duwamish Indian, Chief Seattle, surprised Governor Isaac Stevens with this verbal broadside Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished. Even the rocks, which seem to be dumb and dead as they swelter in the sun along the silent shore, thrill with memories of stirring events connected with lives of my people, and the very dust upon which you now stand responds more lovingly to their footsteps than to yours, because it is rich with the blood of our ancestors and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch. And when the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your childrens children think themselves alone in the field, the shop, upon the highway, or in the silence of the pathless woods, they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude. At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still [love] the beautiful land.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:06:19 +0000
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