Chief Seattle was giving an oration to Governor Isaac I.Stevens about preserving their land and creating reservations. In his passionate, sorrowful, and somewhat threatening oration, Chief Seattle is establishing himself as a strong leader with a force to be reckoned with in order to show that they accept Governor Isaac I. Stevens’’s decisions, but there will also be consequences. Through his use of diction, imagery, and tone Seattle almost embraces the government’s choice to buy their land. He is forced to come to this decision due to the loss of people he has suffered. He accepts his defeat due to the unfairness of the armies and several other things. Throughout his oration, you can tell how in check Seattle is with the land. It is considered…show more content… It starts out almost sorrowful but accepting about what has happened with their beloved land. He speaks with great love and respect towards nature. It starts out very compassionate and very trusting when he says, “Whatever Seattle says the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun.” He wants the Governor to know he is a man of his word and he is very credible. Then the tone almost changes to despair because of how their “youth is impulsive.” He is also saddened by the amount of loss the native american tribes have experienced by the settlers pushing them westward. Yet, he doesn’t place all the blame on the settlers when he says, “as we too may have been somewhat to blame.” The last tone of the oration is very threatening. He has officially waved his white flag, figuratively of course, and speaks about his ancestors haunting the lands. He forecasts by saying, “Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the ‘white man whose god walked and talked with hims as a friend with friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny.” No one can avoid death. It is bound to happen to everyone. He warns them that even when the settlers think their race is finally alone, they never will be because, “when the Last Red Man shall have perished, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe.” His people will always be walking around the
