ICSE-X-English

01: Chief Seattle’s Speech

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    What did Seattle mean by, "There is no death, only a change of worlds"?
    Ans : Chief Seattle was a philosophical man who believed that death was an inevitable truth and one should not regret. In fact, it is only the change of the world. Tribes follow tribes and nations follow nations. He talked about his dead and the land that they still visited the land and would forever so the Whites should treat them kindly as the dead were not powerless according to him. He stated that there was no death, only man changed his world.