How can you buy or sell the sky

I still love this speech very much even with a great deal of controversy surrounding Chief Seattle's speech of 1854. Maybe the translation of his speech has changed a lot of what he really said, maybe the so-called translation was created by others. But we all know that indigenous people did not view the land as their own property until we force them.

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How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us.

If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?

Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The sap which courses through the trees carries the memories of the red man.
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* Chief Seattle's Speech of 1854

* Thus Spoke Chief Seattle: The Story of An Undocumented Speech, by Jerry L. Clark, the National Archives Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring 1985).
Detailed research calling into question the very existence of the speech, based on the Bureau of Indian Affairs records at the National Archives.

* Chief Seattle on internet, Research by Per-Olof Johansson in Denmark

* Chief Seattle's Thoughts, Two versions of the speech by Duane Bristow