ABSTRACT
In 1854, President Franklin Pierce petitioned Chief Seattle—the leader of the Coastal Salish Indians of the Pacific Northwest—to sell his tribe's land to the United States. In his response to President Pierce and the white Europeans' pursuit to own and "subdue" the Earth, Chief Seattle penned thoughts as environmentally pensive and poignant as any uttered in more than 140 years since: "Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one day lay in your own waste" [1].
