Chief Seattle
Chief Seattle was a nineteenth-century leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish tribes in the Pacific Northwest.
He maintained peaceful relations with white settlers in the Puget Sound region during the 1850s.
The city of Seattle, Washington bears his name.
He is widely associated with an eloquent environmental speech, though the famous version was largely composed by a screenwriter in 1971.
- Pacific NorthwestCoastal American region, northward
- tribal leaderHead of indigenous group
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- treaty rightsPact-secured legal entitlements
- speechOral communication ability
environmental · great spirit · Native American · Puget Sound · elder · wisdom · oral tradition · land · ancestors · native land · nature · web of life · tribe · reservation · oration · salmon · cedar · canoe
- SeattleSpace Needle, Pike Place Market, Mount Rainier, Puget Sound, Mariners
- Indigenous LeadersCrazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Tecumseh, Cochise
- Kitsap CountyKingston, Bangor, Indianola, Manchester, Brownsville
- Pacific NorthwestAlaska, Oregon, Vancouver, Washington, Portland
- Indigenous Activists
Chief Seattlecolonizers
Those who establish foreign control
Andrew Jackson · settlers · land speculators · William Tecumseh Sherman · homesteaders
Chief Seattlerobber barons
Exploitative nineteenth-century capitalists
Chief SeattleCrazy Horse
Lakota war leader
Sitting Bull · Tecumseh · Red Cloud · Cochise · Black Hawk