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“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us.” So begins the famous speech of Chief Seattle. Or does it? In reality, that line was written by a screenwriter in the 1970 for the movie “Home.” Most of the speech people associate with Chief Seattle was made up. There is no authenticated original of what he actually said that day, only notes taken by an early settler who was present when Seattle spoke. The original speech was actually much darker and filled with despair and resignation to what was to come. So who was this man, whose words were so powerful that years later they were twisted, and used for entertainment and political gain?
Chief Seattle was born about 1786. His father was a noted headman and war leader, but his mother was a slave so he was considered of low birth. Around the time of his birth the Puget Sound area was hit hard by small pox, a white man\'s disease that came to them before they\'d even seen a white man. Also at that......

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