Chief Seattle

I have read parts of this speech before. This was a wise man. His complete acceptance of the future that awaits the original people of this country is inspring. How hard it must have been to believe that your time has come, to be ready to just be a part of this land.
I believe that the dust of the ancestors coveres every inch of this land. I have felt it and I have seen the men running through the hills after deer.
I know that what Chief Seattle said is true. The day and the night can not exist at the same time. However there comes a time when they both exist at the same time. We need to look for those times as an inspiration. In know that the white man that came here was fleeing religious persecutuion and in the next heart beat they were doing the same thing.
There was one thing that Chief Seattle got wrong. His people have combined and are becoming a great force in this country. They are reclaiming their finances and they are going to continue to aquire more land. There are laws that allow them to govern themselves exclusively and yet they also have a voice in the current government.
We could have learned how to be better people much faster than we have. God says to wait and be patient. Yet the forefathers of our government did not wait one minute to say that their way was the only one.
I don't blame the natives for doubting the goodness of God when his followers were so mean. If you slow down for one minute by a natural waterfall in Auburn you can see the women filling water baskets and bathing their babies.