1. This morn, the Trivia question in my email was
Easy one....but it brought to mind one of those huge lies they tell students in government school....that 'Noble Savage' lie aimed to suggest that white folks are destroyers of the planet.
2. The American Indian, the Native American....we have much to learn from this noble caretaker of
"the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,..."
Longfellow.
3. In 1854, the chief of the Puget Sound tribes of the Pacific Northwest......Chief Seattle, spoke these words, words that inspire the environmental movement today:
" Yonder sky that has wept tears of compassion upon my people for centuries untold, and which to us appears changeless and eternal, may change.... To us the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground... Our dead never forget this beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its verdant valleys, its murmuring rivers, its magnificent mountains, sequestered vales and verdant lined lakes and bays,... Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed..." Chief Seattle s Speech of 1854 - Version 1
...you must henceforth give the rivers the kindness you would give any brother. We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs.
The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on. He leaves his father's graves behind, and he does not care. He kidnaps the earth from his children, and he does not care.
He treats his mother, the earth, and his brother, the sky, as things to be bought, plundered, sold like sheep or bright beads.
His appetite will devour the earth and leave behind only a desert."
Australia by Holden Friday night beers--revisited.
The Chief Seattle speech is famous in the halls of environmentalism.
4. And so begins the tale that the American Indians were the early environmentalists, natural conservationists who lived in harmony with nature.
5. Of course, there is hardly any basis for said belief, and, in fact, plenty of evidence to the contrary.
To begin with, the folks who advance the tales have no way to prove the tales via literature, as the Indians produced none.
What is to be learned in this thread is the nature of " the gullibility and mendacity of the greens and their allies in the media"
Chief Seattle's speech is the one document that is the mother of the propaganda....the 1854 speech of the chief of the Puget Sound tribes of the Pacific Northwest......Chief Seattle.
The problem is with the speech as an historical document: it is entirely bogus.
Which of the following cities was named after a Native American chief?
Dallas, TX Seattle,WA Omaha, NE or Milwaukee, WIEasy one....but it brought to mind one of those huge lies they tell students in government school....that 'Noble Savage' lie aimed to suggest that white folks are destroyers of the planet.
2. The American Indian, the Native American....we have much to learn from this noble caretaker of
"the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,..."
Longfellow.
3. In 1854, the chief of the Puget Sound tribes of the Pacific Northwest......Chief Seattle, spoke these words, words that inspire the environmental movement today:
" Yonder sky that has wept tears of compassion upon my people for centuries untold, and which to us appears changeless and eternal, may change.... To us the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground... Our dead never forget this beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its verdant valleys, its murmuring rivers, its magnificent mountains, sequestered vales and verdant lined lakes and bays,... Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed..." Chief Seattle s Speech of 1854 - Version 1
...you must henceforth give the rivers the kindness you would give any brother. We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs.
The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on. He leaves his father's graves behind, and he does not care. He kidnaps the earth from his children, and he does not care.
He treats his mother, the earth, and his brother, the sky, as things to be bought, plundered, sold like sheep or bright beads.
His appetite will devour the earth and leave behind only a desert."
Australia by Holden Friday night beers--revisited.
The Chief Seattle speech is famous in the halls of environmentalism.
4. And so begins the tale that the American Indians were the early environmentalists, natural conservationists who lived in harmony with nature.
5. Of course, there is hardly any basis for said belief, and, in fact, plenty of evidence to the contrary.
To begin with, the folks who advance the tales have no way to prove the tales via literature, as the Indians produced none.
What is to be learned in this thread is the nature of " the gullibility and mendacity of the greens and their allies in the media"
Chief Seattle's speech is the one document that is the mother of the propaganda....the 1854 speech of the chief of the Puget Sound tribes of the Pacific Northwest......Chief Seattle.
The problem is with the speech as an historical document: it is entirely bogus.
