In A letter to President Pierce, Chief Seattle is explaining why and how the white men do not understand the red men and how the red men do not understand the white men. He discusses how the value of the land is different for the two races; this is his main point. The Indians see the land as sacred and prosperous, and that it has to be cherished in order to be inhabited. The white men see the land as being the same wherever they go, property, that they think they can take from wherever or whomever they like, drain it of its value, and then leave. The next point he discussed is how the two styles of living are different from one another. The Indian lifestyle is a peaceful one. They live in harmony with everything around them. On the other hand, the white men lives a very loud and busy lifestyle. They live only to benefit themselves. One of the underlying points is that the Indians do not understand why the white men are intruding on their land. They do not know why the white men are taking their land, killing the buffalo that the Indians need for their survival, stealing their horses and destroying their land for expansion. The final main point that Chief Seattle made is that they, both the red men and the white men, are connected because they are all beings of the earth, in the sense that what happens to one affects all. This article says a lot even though it is pretty short. White men did intrude on the Indians and they did organize buffalo hunting in order to kill the buffalo, the Indians' major food source, and get the Indians to either move out or die of starvation. The white men also took a lot of the Indians' land away from them. They sent them to live on reservations, when Indians were used to free roam and no rules or boundaries. The white men did come from the city where it was loud and were not appreciative of the Indians' way of life. It has been known that the white men drove the Indians away because they thought they were savages.
