This speech is a bittersweet reminder of what trully matters in this life.

I share it hear to share a vision of living in earth in right-relationship to affirm and inspire.

CHIEF SI'AHL

This moving oration is a translation of his speech recited in 1854 during treaty negotiations with the governor of Washington Territory, is considered to be one of the greatest statements ever made regarding the relationship between a people and the earth

“This we know; The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know, all things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected”

--Chief Si’ahl, Namesake of the City of Seattle

The name “Seattle” is an Anglicization of Si'ahl (1780-1866).