This evening we went to an Interfaith Thanksgiving service in which "from the writings of Chief Seattle, 1854" was used as a responsive reading. It contained "All things are connected" and "Our God is the same God."
Sorry, folks, but these words were written by Ted Perry in 1972 for a movie produced by the Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission. See http://ecopsychology.org/gatherings2/scull.htm. Perry's words are about environmentalism; Seattle's words are about conciliation in the face of conquest. See "The Suquamish Tribe - Chief Seattle's Speech and Gravesite". Seattle uses "connected" once in "memories of stirring events connected with the lives of my people". He says, "Your God is not our God" because the white man's God is letting the red man be treated unjustly.
