United States: Chief Seattle's Speech Revisited

United States: Chief Seattle's Speech Revisited Arnold Krupat, 2011   In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article.   Indian orators have been saying good-bye for more than three hundred years. John Eliot's Dying Speeches of Several Indians (1685), as David Murray notes, inaugurates a long textual history in which "Indians . . . are most useful dying," or, as in a number of speeches, among them the one I will consider here, bidding the world farewell as they embrace an...

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