Quotation by Seattle

Seattle (c. 1784–1866), Native American chief of the Dwamish, Suquamish, and allied Indian tribes. Letter, 1854, to President Franklin Pierce. Attributed, published in 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 television scriptwriter Ted Perry for a historical epic in 1971.