Beth Handler Marckx Colehour wrote the above comment.

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Yes, I am reading it now. So much great information and maps as well!

Chief seattle shouldn’t have been a slave owner, and shouldn’t have committed genocide against the Chimicum nation :-) let’s not give the land back to the descendants of slave owners and people who committed genocide!!

@@DR_Green_Thumb_360 so you agree that they should give the land back? Lmaooo ok tyler

@@TheRealThickiminaj no why would we give it back to the descendants of slave owners and genocidal tribes? Aren’t we trying to hold white people accountable for the same crimes? In the name of equality let us hold everyone guilty of these sins accountable…natives and African slave traders too. Why wouldn’t we id love to hear your argument against that?

A simple google search would prove what I’m saying is accurate. The Duwamish slaughtered other tribes, women and children, and owned and traded slaves. Why give it back to such barbaric people?

@@DR_Green_Thumb_360 sure Tyler

Absolutely.

Hi Michael, I believe the late Vi Hilbert of Skagit is the closest authority one can find on the subject. try googling ' Vi Hilbert Seattle pronunciation.' The top hit has an audio interview wherein Seattle, and other local names are spoken in Skagit Lushootseed.

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Unfortunately, evil is a matter of perspective. I mean this in the nicest way possible. White people don't enjoy their history either at times. The Salish culture had completely different views of community and culture that is completely different from most other natives. Color and race mean nothing. It's culture, the willingness to teach but also learn. However, he did not always feel this way. As a younger man he was ruthless. An a class warrior with the size and height to back him up. In an effort to gain more land (with its resources), and gain more warriors he attempted to ban us all together. When facing peoples that did not want that, he killed them. Genocide in all sense of the word. The Chimikuan band of people's in particular were all wiped out besides 1 small tribe. We never really recovered. Others were wiped completely out. In his defense, and all of our defense, we don't know who started it for real. That history is gone because he realized his errors and truly did become one of the Greatest leaders in the America's, though...I may be bias...lol! But he certainly was at least on the same par amongst the greatest. I tell you this, even though my tribe never really recovered. I choose to forgive, most choose to forgive, but just like every human to ever live, some still harbor hate. But because of him (in large part), WA state still remains the 2nd highest rates of Native Americans in the country. So...if this lady didn't have much to say about her kin (if he was her kin), we don't know the reasons in her head. We don't know what her path was. I hope I didn't ruffle feathers. I am only trying to deliver perspectives. Edit: simply being European doesn't make ppl colonizers as well. It's a mindset and just because my children have light eyes and paler skin does not make them less native because I fell in love with a white man.

@@haleyguthrie3113 well actually you are. our people are dying by the hands of other people and our own people marrying other races of people. Our blood is dying out. And the more we have interracial relationships there's going to be no more natives on the planet. And evil is not just a perspective it is an action it is a way of being not a a just thought. And when it comes to the creator there's no in-between you're either righteous or you're evil.

@@jenniferbourgeau49 see...difference of opinion. My children will remain native even though my husband is white. Period. If you don't like that...I'm sorry. I will not disapoint my ancestors. We are genetically similar, yes. But we spoke a different language, different laws, and differences of opinion. It's not race, it's ethnicity. But that doesn't mean we are not cousins. I'm not here to argue, I am pointing out that there is lateral aggression in our communities as a whole because some tribes want to forgive, some want money, some are demanding the city of Seattle. Some cannot stand the fact that my dad was a Welsh immigrant, even though he still goes to the rez and teaches the kids to ride horses, his horses. Do you know how many times I heard slurs thrown to me, my mom and my dad? Because she loves a white man? THAT is why people are leaving the rez, THAT is why I left the rez. I made a new home, with my white husband and white kids and I only have the utmost respect for my new community with the Porch-Creek. They are amazing, and beautiful and I am welcomed there. I am not called WHITE WASHED here. Chief Seattle didn't do that, my own tribe did, Clallam County did, and WA state did. This is how and why tribes split. Differences of opinions, just like every other race of people in the world! I refuse to be a racist. And whether you like it or not...trying to guilt trip a tribe into practicing eugenics is the oldest tactic in the racist handbook. I want no part in it.

@@haleyguthrie3113 you already have by making a conscience decision to dilute your ancestors bloodline