Soundgarden - Into The Void (Sealth) - (w/lyrics) video free download

*taken from "Satan Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas" promo cd (1991)

*lyrics by Chief Sealth (from a letter attributed to Chief Sealth,1852)

*music originally by Black Sabbath

Soundgarden :

Chris Cornell : vocals, guitar

Kim Thayil : guitar

Matt Cameron : drums

Ben Shepherd : bass

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"Chief Sealth" (Ts'ial-la-kum), better known today as Chief Seattle

(also Sealth, Seathl or See-ahth) 1786 -- June 7, 1866,

was a leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish Native American tribes

in what is now the U.S. state of Washington.

A prominent figure among his people, he pursued a path

of accommodation to white settlers, forming a personal relationship with

David Swinson "Doc" Maynard.

Seattle, Washington was named after the Chief.

Sealth was born around 1786 on or near Blake Island, Washington.

His father, Schweabe, was a leader of the Suquamish tribe,

and his mother was Wood-sho-lit-sa of the Duwamish.

In later years, Sealth claimed to have seen the ships of the Vancouver

Expedition as they explored Puget Sound.

Sealth earned his reputation at a young age as a leader and a warrior,

ambushing and defeating groups of enemy raiders coming up the

Green River from the Cascade foothills, and attacking the Chemakum

and the S'Klallam, tribes living on the Olympic Peninsula.

Like many of his contemporaries, he owned slaves captured during his raids.

He was tall and broad for a Puget Sound native at nearly six feet;

Hudson's Bay Company traders gave him the nickname Le Gros (The Big One).

He was also known as an orator; and when he addressed an audience,

his voice is said to have carried from his camp to the Stevens Hotel at

First and Marion, a distance of 3/4th of a mile.

He took wives from the village of Tola'ltu just southeast of Duwamish Head

on Elliott Bay (now part of West Seattle). His first wife La-Dalia died after

bearing a daughter. A second wife, Olahl, bore him three sons and four daughters.

The most famous of his children was his first, Kikisoblu or

Princess Angeline. He was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church,

and given the baptismal name Noah, probably in 1848 near Olympia,

Washington but the meaning of this ceremony may be called into question

by his references to his people's gods in his most famous speech.

For all his skill, Sealth was gradually losing ground to the more powerful

Patkanim of the Snohomish when white settlers starting showing up in force.

When his people were driven from their traditional clamming grounds,

Sealth met Maynard in Olympia; they formed a friendly relationship useful

to both. Persuading the settlers at Duwamps to rename the town Seattle,

Maynard established their support for Sealth's people and negotiated

relatively peaceful relations among the tribes.

Sealth kept his people out of the Battle of Seattle (1856). Afterwards,

he was unwilling to lead his tribe to the reservation established,

since mixing Duwamish and Snohomish was likely to lead to bloodshed.

Maynard persuaded

the government of the necessity of allowing Sealth

to remove to his father's longhouse on Agate Passage,

'Old Man House' or Tsu-suc-cub. Sealth frequented the town

named after him, and had his photograph taken by E. M. Sammis in 1865.

He died June 7, 1866, on the Suquamish reservation

at Port Madison, Washington.

( There is a great deal of controversy surrounding Chief Seattle's speech of 1854. There are many sources of information, various versions of the speech, and debates over its very existence.)

more info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Seattle

http://www.chiefseattle.com/history/chiefseattle/speech/speech.htm

http://movingimages.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/chief-seattle-speech-global-environmental-legend-or-pervasive-myth/

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