{"id":81860,"date":"2012-02-13T03:01:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T08:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/81860\/tour-djoko-chief-sealth-ketchup-peninsula\/"},"modified":"2012-02-13T03:01:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T08:01:04","slug":"tour-djoko-chief-sealth-ketchup-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/81860\/tour-djoko-chief-sealth-ketchup-peninsula\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour d’Joko: Chief Sealth & The Ketchup Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was the kind of Tour d\u2019Joko I wanted to go on last weekend when my car broke down.\u00a0 Then, this week, my employer cut my pay by 30%. My video camera is pretty much unusable now due to the faulty LCD screen.\u00a0 It was time for me to catch a break.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Nothing I enjoy more than getting out on the road and exploring new places\u2026\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/font><\/p>\n


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I hope the spirit of Chief Sealth smiles at the video. <\/font><\/p>\n

I won\u2019t re-print the entire text of Chief Sealth\u2019s speech to the early Seattle settlers on signing the Treaty of Puget Sound, as it is quite long.\u00a0 You can read the whole thing here<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s worth it.\u00a0 It is a powerful missive about the environment, culture and the future of humanity.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Suffice to say, can you imagine if his words were subject to the nitpicking and intense scrutiny that today\u2019s leaders face thanks to a voracious media?\u00a0 Imagine these snippets, taken out context, and discussed on Fox News or MSNBC?
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Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and leads him by the hand as a father leads an infant son. But, He has forsaken His Red children, if they really are His. <\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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He gave you laws but had no word for His red children whose teeming multitudes once filled this vast continent as stars fill the firmament. No; we are two distinct races with separate origins and separate destinies. There is little in common between us. <\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man whose God walked and talked with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We will see.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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And when the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children’s children think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the highway, or in the silence of the pathless woods, they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude. At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land. The White Man will never be alone.<\/font><\/p>\n

Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds. <\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pretty powerful stuff there.<\/p>\n

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This was the kind of Tour d\u2019Joko I wanted to go on last weekend when my car broke down.\u00a0 Then, this week, my employer cut my pay by 30%. My video camera is pretty much unusable now due to the faulty LCD screen.\u00a0 It was time for me to catch a break. Nothing I enjoy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1428,25],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-81860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics-2","category-world","tag-joko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}