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• ethnicity and race
• north american indian

Poster is printed on white paper. Poster is a transLated response from a treaty with the United States and tribal people of Seattle. At the top of the poster is black text that reads: "How Can You / Buy or Sell The Earth? / In 1854, the United States Government offered to buy two million acres of Indian land in the Northwest . / Below is a translation of Cheif Sealth's (Seattle) reply to President Franklin Pierce in December of that year. / It has been described as the most beautiful and prophetic statement on the environment ever made." Below this text is a photograph of a man sitting in a chair with a hat or basket over his knee. Below this image is texxt that reads: "The Dwamish Chief, Salth (Seattle) / (Courtesy of University of Washington)". Around the photograph is the Chief's translation.