Ol' Chief Seattle

I know I should say Chief Sealth or better yet Chief Si'ahl, because I am an enlightened historian.  Whatever...  On this date the most important native in the Puget Sound died back in 1866.  Funny thing was, prior to meeting Doc Maynard in Olympia, he had lost most of his relevance within tribes in the Puget Sound to Kanim a Snoqualmie Chief living near Carnation, in those days not called Carnation.  Maynard and Sealth needed each other, their friendship gave them relevance and strength within the other person's world, as well as, their own.  The city of Seattle has much to owe to Sealth, because it is hard to image a world where tech and aerospace calls Duwamps home.  Sadly no pictures exist of Sealth making his famous speech, with his hand placed upon the head of the diminutive Issac Stevens.  The speech is interesting as it was spoken a language not understood by many, even at the time, and in fact the speech had to be translated from Sealth's Lushootseed language into Chinook Jargon, which then was translated into English.  There is a great deal of question to whether or not he actually spoke any of the words within speech.  I would like to think he spoke all of them.  Who knows if that is true or not, there quite well could have been some myth building taking place with regards to the speech, it can't hurt to put some intellectual muscle behind your town's namesake.  Dismissing the speech however, as fabricated because Sealth was an ignorant Indian, smacks of racism and probably shouldn't be entertained.