Attributed to Seattle (c. 1784–1866), Native American chief of the Dwamish, Suquamish, and allied tribes. Letter, 1854, to President Franklin Pierce. Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle (1990).
The letter, in which Seattle pleaded that his name should die with the ceding of the Washington State territories, was shown in 1992 to have been largely a forgery devised by Ted Perry, a television scriptwriter, for an historical epic in 1971.
