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There is no death, only a change of worlds.

~Chief Seattle

Topics: Change Death Only Worlds

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To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

~Chief Seattle

Topics: Ancestors Ashes Ground Hallowed Our Place Resting Sacred Us

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Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.

~Chief Seattle

Topics: Approach Before Cannot Day Day And Night Dwell Ever Man Mist Morning Night Red Sun Together White

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My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.

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Topics: Few People Plain Resemble Trees

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Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

~Chief Seattle

Topics: Better Considered Cost Even Gain Home Know Lives Lose Men Mothers Old Old Men Own Revenge Sons Stay Times War Who Young Young Men

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Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.

~Chief Seattle

Topics: Certainty Chief Great He Much Rely Return Says Seasons Seattle Sun Washington Whatever

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Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.

~Chief Seattle

Topics: Away Cannot God He Like Love Man Never Our Our People People Protect Rapidly Return Them Tide White Will Would

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