1970 RS Camaro
In 1854, Chief Seattle of the Puget Sound Suquamish tribe solemnly handed over his territory and his people to the sovereignty of the United States. The speech he gave then serves as an inspiration to the ecological movement more than a century later, which has reinterpreted its particularly incisive words. It addresses us-the descendants of those white settlers-in ever more pressing terms:
Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
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 that unites one family. All things are connected.