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Chief Seattle created the speech “This Sacred Soil” to explain several facts about the Indians to Isaac Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory. He expressed his animosity towards the white man before signing a treaty which redistibuted his land to white settlers. Chief Seattle compares the deceased Indians to the deceased whites. By using comparisons about the deceased he illustrates the difference in morals. He also uses similes and metaphors to express his love of nature. To detail the differences between the lives of Indians and the lives of whites he uses hyperbolas, similes and metaphors. Indians’ and whites’ beliefs about the deceased vary drastically. Chief Seattle contrasts the Indians love of the land and the whites ignorance of the land by saying, “Your dead cease to love you and the land of their nativity as soon as they pass the portals of the tomb and wander way beyond the stars. Our dead never forget the beautiful wor