At the time Chief Seattle, who was a recognized native chief of the northwestern United States, compared the Europeans to grass while he called Native American a scattering of trees, this analogy refers to both a positive and a negative face regarding his vision of both groups.
Thus, on the one hand, he considered the natives as trees, these being stronger, imposing and valuable than simple grass; but these were far from each other, in a small quantity, while the grass as such was uniform throughout the land.
In this way, Chief Seattle implied that he recognized the value of the native peoples in the face of the white advance, but that he understood that given the dispersal of the natives, the white control of the territory was inevitable.
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