Indians are native Americans. At that time, when they faced the invasion of white people from Europe, the most unbearable thing was that white people occupied the land to be king and destroyed nature.

This book is taken from a speech made by Seattle Chief when he was forced to sell his tribal land to the US government. It expresses the aborigines' love and respect for nature, and the lines are as beautiful as poetry, revealing the deep feelings of aborigines and the land as a family.

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Susan jeffers spent a lot of time exploring nature, drawing pictures and reading story books since she was a child. Two classic stories deeply influenced her: the gentle and determined dark horse in Black Beauty and the brave little Gerda in Snow White. These two roles often encourage her to do her best in life and things.

Susan jeffers chose to make storybooks for children in order to balance her hobbies and make a living after graduating from the Art College. Susan jeffers has painted more than 50 books and won various awards, including the Cadic Prize. Her works always reflect her love for nature, animals and plants.

Although it is difficult to confirm whether the Seattle Chieftain's Declaration circulated in the world is true or not, jeffers's nature of loving natural animals was naturally moved by this passage. So, she extracted a passage from it, made a slight modification, studied the lifestyle and geographical environment of North American Indians, and added her own expression techniques to draw the Seattle Chiefs' Declaration.

This book was published in 199 1 and has been a best seller in The New York Times for several months.

Jeffers has always been good at watercolor and meticulous brushwork. The Declaration of the Chief of Seattle is a mixture of these two techniques, which appropriately expresses the realism of the characters' scenery, the selflessness of the earth and the feminine effect of equality of all things. Jeffers is very delicate in the handling of visual composition. In order to show the vastness of trees, the vastness of the earth and the richness of species, she adopted the method of multi-level superposition.

In this way, several cross-page pictures in the book present peculiar visual effects. Trees, animals among trees, animals and people on branches, and so on. The focus of the perspective is even different at each level.

The picture itself has both real and dreamy effects, echoing the sense of time and space in the words written by Seattle chiefs, successfully sorting out Indian ancestors, Indian aborigines at that time and white people who have developed this land for thousands of years, and skillfully presenting history and reality on the same picture.

When Chief Seattle mentioned that we human beings are just a thread in the web of life, jeffers also used an enlarged spider web as a metaphor: the relationship between all things on the earth is like a slender spider web, tied to flowers swaying in the wind, interlocking with each other, but fragile enough to be destroyed at any time.

Finally, jeffers deliberately added a small white family at the end of the book, implying that after taking over the land, white Americans should abide by the expectations of Seattle chiefs and love the land as their own family. The Seattle Chief's declaration is sincere and touching, and jeffers's paintings live up to his mission and add a little elegance. * * * made this great work.

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