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标 题: 西雅图酋长致美国总统书(7)(转寄)
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Fri Dec 26 21:36:08 1997), 转信
You must teach your children that the soil beneath their
feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So they will
respect the land, tell your children that the earth is
rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your descendants
what we have taught our children, that the earth is our
mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of
the earth. The earth does not belong to man; man belongs
to the earth. This we know. All things are connected
like the blood which unites one family. Man did not
weave the web of life: his is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Even
the white man cannot be exempt from the common destiny.
We may be brothers after all. The whites too shall pass,
perhaps sooner than all other tribes. Contaminate your
bed and you will one night suffocate your own waste. But
in your perishing you will shine brightly, fired by the
strength of the God who brought you to this land and for
some special purpose gave you dominion over this country
and over the red man.
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