The Chemawa American, May 01, 1914, Page 17, Image 17

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land), and it won it was that way that our Government came to be.
A short while after we won that big fight with England an Indian
woman of this part of the country had a little baby, a little boy baby,
and this Indian mother gave to him a very good name—that name was
SE-AT-TLH. Perhaps you know and understand the name—it was a
good name, a chief’s name. When this SE-AT-TLH grew large he became
chief over you, over thé Suquamish people, and he lived at Ole Man
House (Port Madison Reservation) with you. SE-AT-TLH was a
very good chief, there was no evil in his heart, he was not an enemy to
the white man and the white man thought a very great deal of him and
liked him—see, yonder, a great city, the white man’s city, and to that
great city he has given the name of his friend your chief—SE-AT-TLH!
After Seattle became an old man our Government made another big
war, a strong fight, for five years, and then won! One year after we
won that fight SE-AT-TLH died at Ole Man House (Port Madison Res­
ervation) and his good friends gave him honorable burial in a goodly
place, in their cemetery where his body lies now.
SE-AT-TLH lived more than 80 years before he departed, before he
died. When he was a lad he saw the first sailing vessel come to Puget
Sound and he saw the ships of the British chief Vancouver sail hither
at the time there was no steamboat. Before SE-AT-TLH died he
lived to see the first steamboat come here to Puget Sound. A steamer is
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much better and makes much more speed than a sailing vessel —
you all know that. It seems therefore that SE-AT-TLH saw wonder­
ful things in this way. To-day we are doing very much the same, all
of us, white and Indian friends of the Suquamish tribe of SE-AT-TLH.
Now we ourselves see indeed this new steamer, very much better
indeed than those ships of the olden time that SE-AT-TLH saw. Be­
hold! Shortly this fine, new steamer will have its engene, a very new
engine, a Deisel engine—the very first of its kind in the Puget Sound
country. It is this that we ourselves are seeing. This day marks a
new time in such things and it is just as though we ourselves were be­
holding a very great and wonderful, a miraculous thing!
When Vancouver first sailed these waters there was no steamboat
anywhere, not one. Sixty-three years after that, Governor Stevens
journeyed to Mukilteo in a steamboat, the Major Tompkins,” to make
with you your treaty and SE-AT-TLH was your chief at that time. He,
SE-AT-TLH, was the first of all to put his name to that treaty, he lead
all of the chiefs. A little after this more steamboats came to Puget
Sound—the “ Beaver,” “ Massachusetts,” “ Eliza Anderson” and others.
SE-A1 - 1LH saw the first sailing vessel and the first steamer enter
Puget Sound. During that time almost all of you preferred the canoe
and wanted it. To-day perhaps most of you would rather travel bv