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The US was a small country in the cast of North America
when it started in 1776. It became bigger in the following
dozens of years by Fighting other countries, buying lands, and
Gisplacing Native Americans, called Indians then. In 1854,
Chief Seattle was told to sell his Indian land to the US. His
answer to the request has made some of the wisest lines about
nature, land, and people.
“How can you buy or sell the sky or the land? If we do
not own the air or the water, how can you buy them? We are
part of the Earth and it is part of us. The flowers, the
mountains, the juices in the grass, the body heat of the horse,
and the man, all belong to the same family. So when the Great
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White Chief in Washington sends words that he wishes to buy
our land, he asks much of us. We know that the white man
does not understand our ways. One piece of land is the same to
him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and
takes what he needs from the land and then he moves on. If we
sell you our land, you must remember what happens to the Earth
happens to the sons of the Earth. Man did not make the web of
life
he is only a thin line in it. What he does to the web, he
does to himself.”
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