The Speech of Chief Seattle - The Great Chief in Washington

Apologies for my English accent and for the cover photo being incorrect. Great poetic speech revealing the melancholy and tragedy associated with the fading of a civilisation and way of life in the face of the unjust and brutal 'Manifest Destiny' of the settlers. Gives also a wonderful picture of how the spirit was still seen as an objective reality in nature, a perceptual faculty now by and large lost to mankind in an overwhelmingly materialistic world. Excuse the birds tweeting in the background...Although there are many versions of this speech, and much controversy surrounding origins and authorship, it does not take away from the artistry and truthfulness of the speech. As Chekov said when seeing one of his plays: 'That is not how I imagined the play being performed, but it is much better than I imagined it'. We need not be slaves to the material world and its events. Art originates from a different plane of reality and although none of the Seattle versions may have actually been spoken in material life in exactly the way recounted, or even near to the reality, it need not take away from their artistic beauty. Shakespeare's historical plays are in many aspects totally inaccurate historically, yet they are great works of art and capture a folk essence of English historical legend. Art speaks for humanity as a whole and not for a particular nation or fragment of humanity. This speech, whatever its origins, speaks to all.

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