POV Debrief from Chief Seattle's How Can You Buy Or Sell the Earth?

• Chief Sealth is an Animistic Native American chief, which impacts the documents tone by making it stoic yet unaccepting of the US governments ways because he believes the entire world is connected and behaving like the US does would surely be harmful to themselves.
• The author, Chief Sealth, is an animistic Native American tribal chief who is not American, which impacts the document’s FOCUS by making the Earth a sacred place and assessing its value from his and American perspectives and affects his decision on the deal presented to him from the American people.
• Chief Stealth, both an animistic and Paleolithic Chief, affects the document's sagacious tone by professing his views on both his tribe and "the Great Chief's " civilization. He does this when he mentions our way of treating land, indirectly referring to pollution, and his tribe's way of treating land, which was treasuring it.
• The ​author, Chief Sealth, was a Native American tribal chief with a sense of unity which impacts his FOCUS on informing westerners that they all have the same god, and are all part of the web of life.
• Chief Sealth is an animistic Native American leader of a North American tribe that is dedicated to views of preservation, which impacts the focus of the document by making a proposal for a more efficient lifestyle to benefit the Earth and every one of its interconnected inhabitants.

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