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Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle (1990)published in Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle (1990)

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Attributed to Seattle

Attributed to Seattle (c. 1784–1866), Native American chief of the Dwamish, Suquamish and allied Indian tribes. Letter, 1854, to President Franklin Pierce. 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.

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