Brother Eagle, Sister Sky
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ISBN: 0803709692 / Publisher: Dial, September 1991
A Suquamish Indian chief describes his people's respect and love for the earth, and concern for its destruction.
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"How can you buy the sky? How can you own the rain and the wind?" So begin the moving words attributed to a great American Indian chief--Chief Seattle--over 100 years ago. They are words that eloquently capture the central belief of Native Americans: that this earth and every creature on it is sacred. It is this belief that inspired Susan Jeffers' extraordinary full-color paintings.
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