Chief Seattle research Paper
...no hereditary chiefs along Puget Sound. Strong leaders arose who distinguished themselves by certain actions or particular skills. For example there were fishing leaders, peacetime leaders and leaders in times of a crisis. Chief Seattle was a peacetime leader and a leader in times of a crisis. He had a few other names that he went by depending on the people. Noah Seattle was the name that he received at his baptism in 1838. He also went by Chief Sealth, which is the name his tribe had given him. See-at-la was his Lushootseed name. At the age of 6 he had seen the first Englishmen to visit the Puget Sound area, Captain George Vancouver and his sailors. He continued the friendly relations that his father began with the white people. He was the only Indian who was said to understand what the white men’s intentions were. As a young man he was known for his courage and leadership in battle. He gained control of 6 neighboring tribes. Although he befriended certain white men he refused to learn their language or their ways. He negotiated a lot with the white men. Trying to find some point to which they could agree on how to share the land equally. He eventually signed many treaties, such as the Nisqually Treaty, which determined how much land the Nisqually Tribe was able to keep. He was also the first to sign the Port Elliot Treaty in 1855, which the tribes of Washington States were given Reservations. In December of 1854 in his late 50’s or early 60’s Chief Seattle gave a famous speech that is still remembered by many people today. It is a speech of a young man whose world is turned upside down. This speech included inspiring lines such as: “Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” He also wrote...