Sealth
# Sealth

"Chefe Sealth" (Ts'ial-la-kum), mais conhecido atualmente como Chefe Seattle (ou ainda Sealth, "Seathle", Seathl ou See-ahth) (1786 — 7 de Junho de 1866), foi o líder das tribos Suquamish e Duwamish, no que hoje é o estado americano de Washington.
       - I have seen a thousand rotting buffalos on the prairie, Left by the white man who shot them from a passing train. I am savage and I do not understand how the smoking iron horse can be more important than the buffalo that we kill only to stay alive.
          - Sealth, chefe indígena da tribo Seattle, 1854; Recovering the word: essays on native American literature - Página 527, Brian Swann, Arnold Krupat - 1987 - 644 páginas
       - What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.
          - Sealth, chefe indígena da tribo Seattle, 1854; Recovering the word: essays on native American literature - Página 527, Brian Swann, Arnold Krupat - 1987 - 644 páginas