In 1854 a "savage" dwanish , the great Chief Seattle sent a letter to U.S. President Franklin Pierce that he responded to the offer to purchase land and would be inhabited by white settlers in the North.

between what is said...

Earth does not belong to man, but man to the ground. All this together as a family by blood. The man did not woven the web of life, and is just a thread, what you do to the earth makes itself; you do with it, will make it. Whites also are likely to suffer the fate suffered our tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed one night and was stymied in its own wilderness. When the buffaloes are exterminated, wild horses tamed, saturated by the man the most remote corners of the forest, foliage and weeds will be gone, the eagle will be gone. Life ceases to survival instead...

The crystal water of rivers and streams are not only water is also the blood of our ancestors...

Because rivers, our brothers, satisfying our thirst, carry our canoes, feed our children. If they have to sell our land reacordar that rivers are our brothers (and you) and teach your children that they are, and we must treat them as brothers. We know that white men do not understand our way of thinking...

treats his mother, the earth, and his brothers, the sky, as things that can be bought and sold as if they were objects, sheep or accounts of colors... Their greed will destroy the earth, leaving behind his back the desert.