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In other words - as the good old pale-face saying goes:
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Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
Despite the fact that ....
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Chief Seattle is probably our greatest manufactured prophet
- David Buerge, a biographer and a historian to the Duwamish Tribe, Seattle’s mother’s people.
Native Americans will become ‘spirit guides’ for the New Age white men???:
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And when the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, 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.
- Chief Seattle
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I have been friends of one of Chief Sealth/Seathl (Seattle) distant relatives for some time and have met others (Muckleshoot, Duwamish, snoqualmie.) They have voiced some of the popular quotes from Chief sealth/Seathl and are proud that he is still remembered that way. They are aware that translations are not always accurate.
It is funny my friend looks exactly like Chief Sealth/Seathl.