Brothers after all

[nico1908]

"(W)hy should I mourn at the untimely fate of my people? Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man (...) cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We will see."

Seealth, chief of the Squamish, 1854, as reported by Henry Smith in the Seattle Sunday Star, 1887 (Source here; critical here)