Katie Jackson 1 Early in American History, the US government relocated many Indians into reservations.

Chief Seattle was a leader of one of these tribes. (maybe combine these first two sentences so the introduction flows better)When his lands were taken, he gave a magnificent speech to Governor Stevens. That speech is filled with bereft dignity and conveys his sorrow as well as a warning through diction, imagery of water and contrasting views of god and the afterlife. Throughout the speech, time is mentioned in several forms. The word time itself is used only once, but many other similar words: centuries, changeless, eternal, today, tomorrow, change, memory, days, and night, are used in almost every paragraph. This is used as a reminder that these Indians, which the white men want to relocate, have been in this area for centuries, that they chose this land and know it well. Diction furthers this idea with repeated uses of ancestors and destiny. Their ancestors have lived on this land and loved it for centuries; therefore it seemed to be their destiny to remain there, where the souls of their ancestors would return. In a single, notable paragraph, Seattle discusses ancestors and religion. (Im not sure what the need is for the clarification that Seattle uses a single, notable paragraph) He calls into question the prevalent representation of a single god who loves everyone by calling into contrast this gods treatment of the red man (in the text, the red men are referred to as Red Men) as compared to that of the white man. The protection that is promised by the government is obviously impossible, for your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine. He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface but he has forsaken his red children if they really are his.

All of the morals of the European men are based around Gods love, but Chief Seattle cannot believe that that love extends to the red man,(Red Men) whose depleting line has known nothing but sorrow since the arrival of those believing in the European God. Chief Seattle dedicates very little time to this paradox, preferring to focus on that which he knows, the sky, sea, stars, and love of ancestors. He repeatedly uses imagery of the sea and water to indicate change and the end of his people. The first incident of this speaks of the past, there was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor. ,(the punctuation here is weird) referring to the time when his tribe thrived over all of the land. The next is for the present, our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. Finally, he uses water to predict the future destruction of his tribe, Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation like the waves of a sea. The sea is the inevitable, water represents life until that life ebbs away and starts anew, as it is in Chief Seattles tribe. His hope comes from his belief that his ancestors spirits remain in the stars and never forget the beautiful world that gave them being and often return to visit, guide, console and comfort the lonely hearted living. So comes his thinly veiled warning, his one bargaining chip so to speak.(the first sentence of this paragraph is awkward) Even when his people are gone, they will remain. And when the Last Red Man shall have perished, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. So comes the timeless (awkward)warning that the dead can come back to haunt the living. It implies that, though the red men (Red Men) are powerless to stop the new US Government (you

should probably type out united states), one day they will be strong when all generations have been united in the afterlife. The government should therefore take care in what it does to its helpless charges, for it shall be repaid in the end. This dignity in defeat makes up the majesty (not sure majesty is the appropriate word to use here. You should use effectiveness or "power) of Chief Seattles parting words. He acknowledges that the government can and will take the land from his beloved tribe. Yet he keeps face and hope by not fighting a losing battle rather than accepting the offer that indeed appears just, even generous. (to me, this ending is a little bit awkward)