Chief Seattle's Letter To American People

In the article of Chief Seattle’s letter to the American People, the content of this letter is Chief Seattle which is the leader of the Suquamish Indians wrote this letter in response to American government attempted to purchase their land during the 1800s. In Chief Seattle’s perspectives in the letter, he advocates the land cannot be sold because the Mother Nature is treated as God in Squamish Indians' culture. Also, Chief Seattle believes every humankind are part of nature and vice versa. For instance, the rivers represent people's brothers and the sounds of the water are the voice of people's ancestors. So the rivers aren’t just water, but the blood of the ancestors. Therefore, Chief Seattle feels very strange about how American government

If we don’t cherish what the Mother Nature gave us, the whole world would be like the setting of the movie “Soylent Green” which we will all be suffering in the future that consists of overpopulation, exhausted natural resources, pollution and global warming due to the greenhouse effect. But there is an exception if we could use the nature resources properly with an appreciative attitude and appropriate means to make the practices as harmless as possible for the earth, then we might be able to create a harmonious environment which can protect the nature and also satisfied our

Nowadays, people still exploit the nature for lucrative economic interests and commercial purposes or daily life needs. For example, the Dakoda access pipeline order that signed by President Trump which reanimated the Keystone XL pipeline and dispatched the other pipeline in Dakota that had grown into a main critical point for Native Americans. Due to this saturation, the Standing Rock Sioux tribes decided to initiate a protest near Cannon Ball, North Dakoda for the construction of pipelines which close to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The reasons to start this objection are: firstly, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribes think the construction of pipelines could result in a great environmental issue and cultural imperilment because its path will pass through their ancestral soils, which not belongs to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, where their ancestries lived and were buried. They also advocated the reviews of historical and cultural about the land where the pipeline will be installed were insufficient. Secondly, they also concern about disastrous environmental destructions if the pipelines were broke that might cause oil leaking in order to pollute the Missouri Rivers which close to the pipelines were buried. On the other hand, the oil leaking would directly impact people’s living and health in the U.S., even though it will generate 8,000 to 12,000