"The Sacred Soil" by Chief Seattle Response

             After reading this I feel a sense of respect for the author. He doesn't try to refuse that fact that his people will be gone soon. He accepts it. Yet he doesn't say it as a bad thing. More of an eventuality. He explains how all people in time will fade away in time so instead of blaming the white men of his peoples leavings he sees it as nature taking its course. The author stated "Tribe follow tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless."
             Yet he does feel some remorse over their land becoming desecrated. However his people will truly never be gone after they have left the land. Much like the author has said "There is no death, only change of worlds." So there "spirits" remain to roam the land they once inhabited. So despite the fact that the white men have cleared the land of their people, the white men will never be "alone."
            It is really sad though how the author and his people never really had a choice to go to the reservations or not. His people are few but the white men are many. So the author states "The white Chief says that Big Chief at Washington sends up greetings of friendship and goodwill. That is kind of him for we know he has little need of our friendship in return." So it was not much of an option.
            I wonder if "the white men" ever thought of the possibility of not taking the land that didn't belong to them. The author's people have been theres for hundreds of years so whats gives these foreign people the right to commandeer it? So none the less this story was a good read.