Wonderful piece. Chief Seattle spoke to the President of the United States, to the Great Father in Washington. "How can you buy or sell the sky? " Because Washington wanted his land, all of Chief Seattle's land. There was no way he could stop that from happening. But the speech is one of the greatest speeches on ecology. "Will you teach your children what we have taught our children if I sell you our land? Will you respect the trees, the water, the air, the animals, the fish? " Washington agreed to all of this. Put him on an island off of Seattle, where he could never return to Seattle, where he died. I've been to his grave there, with Iola. It was a little frightening to play for the Suquamish tribe Chief Seattle's speech, because they do not like people to take their music or their texts. So at the first performance, a young chief came and read - what did he read? Part of Chief Seattle? He spoke himself.