Chief Seattle

Chief Seattle When stories are told about the American Indian it is usually the Indians that are looked upon as the heathens. They are portrayed as savages who spent most of their time raiding wagon trains and scalping the white settlers just for fun. The media has lead us to believe that the American government was forced to take the land from these savage Indians. We should put the blame where it belongs, on the U.S. Government who lied, cheated, and stole from the Indians forcing many Indian

text, Chief Seattle ponders whether or not to sell his land to the president of the United States, George Washington. Chief Seattle is trying to appeal both to his tribal members and to the white settlers offering to buy the tribal land. Seattle’s speech is a mix of placatory language and of bitter remarks about the differences between whites and natives. Chief Seattle uses logos to convince both sides of the validity of his claims, he uses pathos to garner support from his own people Chief Seattle

In Chief Seattle oration, he attempts to convince Governor Isaac Stevens and the white people that they should be treated fairly despite their condition... Through the use of rhetorical devices like organization, figurative language, tone, and diction, Chief Seattle implies that though they are small, they are not powerless. Chief Seattle uses many types of figurative language. “Today is fair. Tomorrow may be overcast with clouds. My words are like the stars that never change." Chief Seattle uses

Chief Seattle addresses a letter to President Pierce to reexamine the Treaty of 1855, that elucidates the current mindset of the average ‘White Man’. Chief Seattle explains “that the white man does not understand our way - land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land”, with no reason, only to benefit himself. Though the white man states that the “redmen [are] savages”(Chief Seattle). The redman is a savage because he pains for the white

Chief Seattle, in his masterfully worded speech to Governor Isaac I. Stevens, attempts to convince Stevens’s people to treat his people kindly and fairly. At the same time, Seattle warns Stevens about the many negative aspects of his tribe. Through the use of juxtaposition, an uncompromising tone towards his surrounding world, and personification of specific objects, Seattle clearly conveys his point to the Governor. Juxtaposition is used to point out many differences between Seattle’s tribe and

is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on” (Chief Seattle). The more land the humans acquire, the more power they possess. Many people wanted land in order to obtain power, yet they took advantage of other people’s property and claimed it as their own; however, claiming a property that does not belong to a person cannot claim as his own. Another example of such aggression is on Chief Seattle’s essay, “Letter to President Pierce, 1855.” He mentions how a white man

Through these neglections and stereotypes, two Chiefs, Seattle and Tecumseh, speak out for their people by using various forms of rhetoric. In Chief Seattle's speech, he makes a letter to President Franklin Pierce and any other Americans that play any parts in Parliament. The audience that the chief is reaching out to may have Manifest Destiny, belief that God approves of the U.S, as well as the belief that Indians are savages. Chief Seattle explains, however, that the Americans are the true savages

Chief Seattle questions the Americans on why they sell and buy land also treat it as if it is nothing. Chief Seattle explains that the Americans want power using personification. Chief Seattle says, “His appetite will devour the earth and leave behind only the desert.”(Paragraph 13). He gives ‘appetite’ a human ability which he uses to show how the Americans want power. That the Americans will take up everything the earth has offered and basically leave nothing. Some of his audience are the Americans

Seattle Chiefs Ovation The arrival of the European colonists in New England in the 17th century pushed the Native Americans to the west and eventually sparking their demise. Intensive logging impacted their environment, epidemic diseases from Europe claimed lives of thousands of Native Americans, and the Euro-Americans simply took over regions and the land of the native community. The Native Americans were outraged by their inferiority and on the colonist’s treatment of the environment. The Chief

Two great chiefs, Tecumseh and Seattle, attempted to address the U.S. government's negligence against the Native American tribes, who preceded the very men who ignore their needs. Chief Seattle delivers a speech to President Pierce in 1855, and in it contrasts nature and artificial cities. “There is no quiet place in man’s cities, no place to hear the leaves of spring or the rustle of insect wings. But perhaps because I am a savage and do not understand, the clatter only seems to insult the ears