 
LP889
One Condition...(c)
Leeds Postcards
part
of the famous speech by Chief
Seattle at Washington in 1854.
The text from which we extracted
it is very long. Here is the part
in full from which it was extracted:
ONE
CONDITION
"So
we will consider your offer to
buy our land. If we decide to
accept, I will make one condition:
The white man must treat the beasts
of this land as his brothers.
I am a savage and I do not understand
any other way. I have seen a thousand
rotting buffaloes on the prairie,
left by the white man who shot
them from a passing train. I am
a savage and I do not understand
how the smoking iron horse can
be more important than the buffalo
we kill only to stay alive. What
is man without the beasts? If
all the beasts were gone, man
would die from a great loneliness
of spirit. For whatever happens
to the beasts, soon happens to
man. All things are connected."
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