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"When the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the white man, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your childrens' children think themselves alone in the field,
or in silence of the pathless woods, they will not be alone.
At night when the streets of your cities are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land.
The white man will never be alone."
This is an excerpt from the end of a speech that Chief Sealth gave in 1854, at a large outdoor gathering in Seattle. The meeting had been called by Governor Isaac Ingalls Stevens to discuss the surrender or sale of native land to white settlers.
The image of Sealth is from photo of a sculpture by James Wenn.
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