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"The Chief in
Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land.
How can you buy or sell sky?
How can you buy or sell land?
The idea is strange to us.
We do not own freshness of air and
sparkle of water, how can you buy them?"
"Every part of this Earth is sacred
to my people.
Every shining pine needle, every sandy
shore, every mist in the dark
woods, every meadow,
every humming insect.
All are holy in the memory and experience of my people."
"We know the sap which courses through the
trees, as we know the blood that courses through our veins.
We are part of the Earth and the Earth is
part of us
The perfumed flowers are our sisters.
The bear,
the deer, the great eagle, these are our brothers.
The rocky crests,
the juices in the meadow, the body heat of the pony, and man, all belong to the
same family."
"The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers
is not just water, but the blood
of our ancestors.
If we sell you our land, you must remember that it is
sacred.
Each
ghostly reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and
memories in the life of my people.
The water's murmur is the voice
of my father's father."
"The rivers are our brothers.
They
quench our thirst.
They carry our canoes and feed our children.
You must give to the river
of kindness like you would give any brother."
"If we sell you
our land, remember that the air is precious to us,
that the air shares its spirit with
all the life it supports.
The wind that gave our grandfather his
first breath also receives his last sigh.
The wind also gives our children the spirit
of life.
So if we sell you our land, you must keep it sacred, as a
place where man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow
flowers."
"Will you teach your children what we have taught our
children?
That the Earth is
our Mother ?
What
befalls the Earth befalls all the Sons of the Earth."
"This we know the Earth
does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth.
All things are
connected like the blood that unites us all.
Man did not weave the
web of life, he is merely a strand in
the web.
Whatever he does to the
web of life, he
does to himself."
"One thing we know:
our God is also your God.
Earth is precious,
to harm the Earth is to heap contempt on its Creator."
"Your destiny is a
mystery to us.
What will happen when the
buffalo are all slaughtered?
The wild horses tamed?
What
will happen when the secret
corners of the forest are heavy with
the scent of many men and
the view of the ripe hills is
blotted by talking wires?
Where will the
thicket be?
Gone!
Where will the eagle be?
Gone!
And what is it to say goodbye to the swift pony and the
hunt?
The
end of living and the beginning of dying."
"When the last red man has vanished with his
wilderness and
his memory is only the shadow of a
cloud moving across the prairie, will these shores and forests still be
here?
Will there be
any of the spirit of my people left?"
"We love this Earth as a
newborn loves its mother's heartbeat.
So, if we sell you our land,
love it as we have loved it.
Care for it as we have cared for it.
Hold, in your mind the memory of the land as it is when you receive it.
Preserve the land for all
children and love it, as God loves us all."
"As
we are part of the land,
you too are part of the land.
This
Earth is precious to us.
It is also
precious to you.
One thing we know:
there is only one
God.
No man, be he red man or white man, can be apart.
We
are brothers after all. "
- Chief Seattle, one of the last
spokesmen of the panentheistic moral
order, around 1852, in a letter to the president of the
United States of America
{Federal agents were inquiring about buying
tribal lands for the arriving
settlers from Europe.}
Older history textbooks speak of
"How the West was won" while newer, more progressive editions give lip
service to the idea the North
American continent was stolen from the original Native American
inhabitants.
"There are many
humorous things in the
world;
among them, the white man's notion that
he is less
savage than the other savages."
Mark Twain
 
"I'm an Indian alright, here in
The Nations they call us
'civilized tribes'.
They call us
civilized because we are easy to sneak up on.
White men have been
sneaking up on us for years.
They sneaked up on us and
told us we wouldn't be happy.
They told us we would be happy in
The Nations.
So they took away our tribal lands and sent us here.
I had a fine woman and two
sons but they all died on the Trail
of Tears.
I wore a frock coat to Washington before The War.
We wore them because we belonged to
Five Civilized
Tribes.
We dressed ourselves up like
Abraham Lincoln.
We got to see the secretary of the interior.
He said, "Boy, you
boys sure look civilized."
He congratulated us and he gave us medals
for looking so civilized.
We told him
our tribal lands had
been stolen and how we were dying.
He shook our hands and said "Endeavor to preserver!!"
They stood us in a line John Jumper, Chili McIntosh, Buffalo Hump, Jim
Buckmark, and me, Lone Waite.
The newspapers took our image, "Indians
vow to endeavor to preserver."
We thought about for a long time,
"endeavor to persever", and when we had thought about it long enough,
we declared war on the
Union."
Lone Waite, Indian chief - from "The Outlaw Jose Wales"
"The white man ruined this country.
It's
turned back to wilderness.
In the old days there used to be lots more
game:
deer, quail, gray squirrels and
rabbits."
Southern
Sierra Miwok elder Jim Rust
75% of the
food and fiber grown today was discovered and
cultivated by the
native farmers and hunter-gatherers of North, Central and South America.
These indigenous varieties include
corn,
beans, peanuts,
cotton,
potatoes,
tomatoes, chili peppers, avocados, blueberries,
cranberries, strawberries, squashes, black walnuts, pecans,
chocolate,
tobacco, rubber,
sunflowers, and
medicinal herbs and plants.
Today, every one of these varieties are threatened by
Monsanto,
PHRMA, and
industrial
monoculture, among others, who are privatizing and patenting seeds and the
gene pool, eroding biodiversity, degrading
the soil and water,
contaminating the food chain, and
destabilizing the climate.
What
European colonists mistakenly described as
wilderness was actually a human nurtured landscape, providing food,
medicinal herbs,
bountiful wildlife,
healthy living soil, and clean water.
Native Americans "managed" the
environment "organically," producing and/or maintaining for themselves and the
future generations native animals, birds, fish, berries, nuts, greens,
fruits, bulbs, corn,
mushrooms, roots, basketry and cordage materials, firewood, hunting and
building materials, herbal medicines, and plants for ceremonial use.
Many "wild" or commercial plants or varieties that exist today are in
fact derived from ancient Native American seed saving and cross-breeding that
produced better-tasting, climate adapted, and nutritional varieties.
The belief that pre-Columbian America was a "pristine wilderness" is
false.
This destructive myth is based upon essentially
racist
stereotypes that reduce the highly successful plant and
animal husbandry of
Native American rural societies to the instinctual behavior of wildlife or "noble
savages."
Of
course this is also true of Africa. |
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