Voici un extrait de la réponse du chef Seattle au gouvernement américain qui lui proposait en 1854 d'abandonner sa terre aux blancs et promettait une réserve au peuple indien: !! Il a dit aussi une chose sur l'air qui est très pertinente
I am a savage and do not understand any other way. I have seen a thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairie, left by the white man who shot them from a passing train. I am a savage and do not understand how the smoking iron horse can be made more important than the buffalo that we kill only to stay alive. What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of the spirit. For whatever happens to the beats, soon happens to man. All things are connected.
"You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the Earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother.
Whatever befallsthe Earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know - the Earth does not belong to man - man belong to man - man belongs to the Earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected"
I am a savage and do not understand any other way. I have seen a thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairie, left by the white man who shot them from a passing train. I am a savage and do not understand how the smoking iron horse can be made more important than the buffalo that we kill only to stay alive. What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of the spirit. For whatever happens to the beats, soon happens to man. All things are connected.
"You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the Earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother.
Whatever befallsthe Earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know - the Earth does not belong to man - man belong to man - man belongs to the Earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected"
inscrit le 09/09/03
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