Archie Binns

“Leschi, sub-chief of the Nisquallys and Puyallups!"
To Elmer, the name was always like a great cry. And by the gathering silence you would think it had some special meaning for everyone there; some meaning of hope and fear. In the silence you became aware of the still treaty ground in the falling rain, and the great fire trees on a strange planet whirling through pace. Under those mysterious trees, people clustered together to decide how things should be. And they tried to decide what was right or profitable by the color of each other's face. But none of them knew what was right or what would be profitable. And they did not know what they were doing or how it would end. The planet, whirling its great firs through space, remained as unknown and strange as any other planet that hung in the sky at night. It was a stranger, when you saw it close, because it was so much more complicated than one bright star. One spot under the great trees became a thousand people. And of that thousand not one really knew what was in the heart of another, or what they were doing or how it would end...”
― Archie Binns, Mighty Mountain