The Intruders

Part III

At night when the streets of your cities and villages shall be silent, and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not altogether powerless.

—Chief Seattle,

excerpt of the 1854 speech,

from the original translation by Dr. Henry Smith