AIS 270 Lecture 6: AIS 270 L06 - Chief Seattle Film

• School: UW
• Department: American Indian Studies
• Course: AIS 270
• Professor: Cote Charlotte

Document Summary

Reading: coll thrush, (cid:862) eattle illahee,(cid:863) i(cid:374) nati(cid:448)e eattle, (cid:894)uw press, (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1011)(cid:895) (cid:894)ca(cid:374)(cid:448)as website) Seattle was a symbol of native and non-native cooperation that allowed civilization to take hold in the puget sound. Born sometime in the 1780s, died in 1866 @ 86. Seattle had to go through a vision quest: known to have received thunderbird power, had a rattle. In the early times, culture change was mutually beneficial. No si(cid:374)gle (cid:862)i(cid:374)dia(cid:374) respo(cid:374)se(cid:863) to (cid:272)o(cid:374)ta(cid:272)t: chief ealth"s rea(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:448)s. chief les(cid:272)hi"s rea(cid:272)tio(cid:374) Chief seattle is more commonly recognized in present day because he was cooperative, contrary to the behavior of chief leschi. It is doubtful that chief seattle gave the main speech that is credited to him: written by henry smith who said that this would have been given in 1854. If it had (cid:271)ee(cid:374) spoke(cid:374) (cid:449)he(cid:374) it is (cid:272)redited, he (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e la(cid:373)e(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g the i(cid:374)dia(cid:374)s being taken over (see paragraph a(cid:271)out (cid:862)your god is (cid:374)ot our god(cid:863))