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- From: kcarroll@stein.u.washington.edu
- Subject: Re: Chris Cornell & Soundgarden
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.012315.14480@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:23:15 GMT
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- As far as I know...there was no such person as Chief Seattle...the city was
- > named after Sealth...who was indeed an actual Native American chief of that
- > age....and according to one of my Nat. Am. texts that date given in the liner
- > notes is indeed correct....
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- Sealth and Seattle are synonamous
- and he didn't actually write that drivel -
- some hack historian cooked it up later (can't remember
- when - maybe in the 40s, 50s, 30s?)
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- and by the way Chief Sealth is to Chief Kitsap
- as MLK is to Malcolm X
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- ..posted by a Seattle resident
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