My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain... There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.


Statement on surrendering tribal lands to Isaac Stevens, governor of Washington Territory (1855)

Chief Seattle Quotes

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain... There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a...

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain... There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a...

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain... There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a...

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain... There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a...