Seattle

Seattle (1786 - 1866) was a Suquamish and Duwamish chief. The city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, was named after him.

This Native American leader signed 1855 treaty with governor of Washington territory and remained at peace with whites even through Yakima War of 1855-56.

Wisdom & Quotes

• When the last red man shall have become a myth among the white man — when your children's children think themselves alone in the fields or the pathless woods, they will not be alone — your lands will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never be alone.

- quoted in Joseph Epes Brown, The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian

• There is no death. Only a change of worlds.

- The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian, - to Isaac Stevens, the Washington Territory Governor (1854)

• Why should I mourn at the untimely fate of my people? Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, and regret is useless.

Davy Crockett
Rafael Cordero Y Molina