Thursday, January 6, 2011

Response to "The Sacred Soil" by Chief Seattle

In this narrative the author is telling how he feels about the White Men and his people. He also mentions plenty about God and that our God hates and does not protect his people. I guess it is because all these bad things that have happened to his people throughout history and because they are treated differently among us.
Seattle says that our beliefs and what we do in life about death and of those dead is wrong. That we forget our ancestry and that we do not prepare for the transition of worlds. In our lives we do lots of bad and offending things that would not allow us to change worlds. I think he is for the most part right, but he seems to put all of us as one, but we are not all bad.
God is loving and loves all, but he does not seem to believe that. Seattle also makes a big deal of the Big Chief of Washington, pretty sure it is the president, and how he controls us and them by putting them in a reservation. His tribes are much less than before and for that reason he thinks that God and the Big Chief of Washington do not care of his people because we are more.
Seattle speaks of Death as if it did not exist. He says that there is just a change in worlds and that his people respect and remember their past more than us(true). He also mentions that the dead are not powerless and I agree with him because one's life can cause great change after he is dead. I thought Seattle was an interesting author and he seems to know what he is talking about when he speaks of afterlife and death, but he is wrong about God and all Americans.

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