Chief Seattle (1786-1866) pg. 173

Chief Seattle's speech was so saddening to me. The way he speaks to Governor Stevens is very friendly but yet he let's him know that he knows what's going. He knows the days of his people are coming to a quick end and he knows how powerful the white men are.

To me he sounds like an old man whose just had enough. He doesn't want to resist the white men and start another war and he knows his people are very few compared to the white men. AND what's really sad is that he acknowledges that he knows the white men don't respect him or his people.
It's sad to see this small glimpse of what the Indians had to go through. Chief Seattle almost sounds like he wants to live in peace but at the same time he sounds resentful towards the white men (not that I blame him). He even thinks the white men's god is prejudice and doesn't like the Indians and their ways. I personally don't believe that God is prejudice and it's sad that the white men's behavior and actions caused the Indians to believe this.

It's funny in a way that we left England to have our own freedom and religious beliefs only to take over a new country and try and force it's inhabitants to believe our ways.