The information of Seattle, the author of lesson 15 in the first volume of grade six

Chief Seattle is the chief of six Indian tribes in the northwest near the Pacific Ocean. He loves and protects nature. 1854, 12 In February, he gave a speech to a gathering including the territorial governor, white immigrants and about 1000 Indians.

Chief Seattle (1786-1June 7, 866) is the leader of Indian tribes in Washington State, USA. He believes in Catholicism and is willing to establish personal friendship with white immigrants and one of Seattle's founders, David Swainson Maynard. According to Maynard's suggestion, Seattle was named after Seattle Chief. It is said that it was 15000-25000 years ago and moved in from Asia through the Bering Strait, distributed in North and South America. There are Eskimos and Aleutians in the northernmost part; In North America, there are Gan people, Argentine people, Iroquois people, Sioux people and Muskoch people. In Central America, there are Aztecs, Mayans, Caribs, Chibucha, etc. There are Incas, Guarani and Arraou Gan in South America. This language belongs to the Indo-Chinese family. First planted corn, potatoes, sunflowers, cotton, cinchona trees and other crops, making contributions to mankind. /kloc-Before the 6th century, most of them were still in the matriarchal clan stage, and a few people like Maya, Aztecs and Incas had already formed early slave countries and had quite high culture. Since16th century, it has been destroyed and killed by European colonists, and its development has been interrupted and its population has declined. There are more than 32 million people. Mainly engaged in agriculture. There are about 800,000 people left in North America, most of whom have been driven into the reservation and lead a hard life. In Central America and South America, it is generally discriminated and assimilated by the rulers of the host countries.

In the 1950s, white leaders in Washington, D.C., wanted to buy Indian territory in the northwestern United States. Seattle wrote "This Land is Sacred", which was compiled according to the reply of Indian Chief Seattle at that time. Seattle is very friendly to whites, and white residents have built a monument on his grave. After the Indian territory in Seattle was forcibly acquired by white people, the land was named after him to commemorate the great Indian chief.

When the chief of Seattle was forced to leave the land named after him, he once said to the white people who drove themselves to the "reservation": "Go by yourself. But before I go by myself, I have a request to the great leaders in Washington, asking everyone to treat the creatures on this land like themselves. " The chiefs in Seattle know that how human beings treat the environment and life in the environment will eventually become their own destiny.