Chief Seattle

Cherokee nation was forced onto a 1000-mile march, during which thousands of Native American perished. In the Letter to President Pierce, Chief Seattle condemns the white people’s disrespectful exploitation of land through rhetorical strategies such as sarcastic tone, the imagery of the nature, and the parallel structure of “what” towards the end of the letter. Chief Seattle maintains a sarcastic tone throughout the letter. He repeatedly refers to the red men as “savage” who “does not understand,” “But

Chief Seattle and Chief Tecumseh In both of the speeches, there were many similarities and differences, but the speeches are different in structure and tone. In the speech of Chief Seattle his rhetorical strategy that he mostly uses is his character, and his emotions to attract his audience. For instance, Chief Joseph tries to point out to General Howard, and the white men that if “He leaves his fathers graves, and his children's birthright is forgotten” (L. 4-5). The chief is saying that white

Chief Seattle, a Native American Chief of the Duwamish tribe, faced the inevitability of his tribe’s removal from their homeland. While he could not deter the United States government from its intentions, he did not waste his opportunity to both protect his tribe and voice his opinions. In his oration to Governor Isaac I. Stevens, Chief Seattle secures respect for his tribe as they are driven off of the land they have protected for centuries. Seattle creates a dynamic shift in tone, primarily through

for their land. One such tribal leader was Chief Seattle, who in the wake of watching his people die off, delivered a powerful oration to punctuate the value and importance of the environment and to save certain land rights for his people. Seattle beautifully blends both literal and figurative language to fight for his people’s right to visit their sacred burial grounds after their removal from their land and to protect the natural environment.

In this article Chief Seattle is mainly talking about how Indians don’t understand white men and how white men don’t understand Indians. One of the points Seattle discusses is how the value of land is seen differently between the two. Indians see the land as a sacred and prosperous place that is to be lived on and cherished. White men see land as being the same wherever they go, so they think they can take it from wherever or whomever, use it for a while, and then leave. The next point discussed

Mrs. Lyons Frederick Douglass vs. Chief Seattle Frederick Douglas and Chief Seattle both experienced disadvantages because of their race and culture around the years 1850-1855. Frederick Douglass was a former slave abolitionist who fought to change America and the Africans who were enslaved in it. Chief Seattle was the leader of the Suquamish Tribe and he too was determined to change the citizen’s perspective about how his people were being treated. Both authors wrote compelling letters/speeches

Chief Seattle said, No Dakota Access Pipeline Actually, Chief Seattle had no idea what is Dakota Access Pipeline. Chief Seattle died in 1866, and the Dakota Access Pipeline project is a recent year’s project. For sure, if Chief Seattle is here, he will against the pipeline. According to the Chief Seattle’s letter, Chief Seattle believed that the earth does not belong to someone and everyone shares the earth. Moreover, the pipeline has positive effects on transverse areas. Then, why Seattle would

The essay “Letter to President Pierce” written by Chief Seattle in 1855 lays out some of the biggest differences between white American culture and the culture of Native Americans. The essay is very brief in length but it does address many points that can be take farther. Chief Seattle begins the essay with simple stating the obvious; that everyone already knows white men and natives do not understand each other’s ways of living. He continues this by saying that even though the land that each of

In two different speeches by two different Native American chiefs, Chief Seattle and Red Cloud, a similar topic in that of the removal of Indians by the U.S. government, was addressed. However, the speeches by the two chiefs were very different, in terms of tone, figurative language, and the clarity of their message. In, "On the Red Man's Trail," Chief Seattle used much figurative language, especially similes, to get his point across. Some of the numerous examples are, "Yonder sky that has wept tears

say that Chief Seattle is honest in his speech,but there is this biased part of me that makes me want to believe, he wasn’t so willing to trust the White Man, and he too like the young men of his tribe was prepared to fight for their land. It’s hard to tell whether ,or not part of his dissertation was fabricated, since it was translated based on the research of Henry A. Smith a caucasian male and published in 1887 thirty-three years after the events of this dissertation were in motion.. Chief Seattle