Answering Chief Seattle

by Albert Furtwangler

Book Overview

Over the years, Chief Seattle's famous speech has been embellished, popularized, and carved into many a monument, but its origins have remained inadequately explained. Understood as a symbolic encounter between indigenous America, represented by Chief Seattle, and industrialized or imperialist America, represented by Isaac L Stevens, the first governor of Washington Territory, it was first published in a Seattle newspaper in 1887 by a pioneer who...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295976330
• ISBN13: 9780295976334
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"