Red Jacket

The following is the full text of a speech which was given by Seneca Chief Sagoyewatha, who was born around 1757 and died in 1830 in Buffalo, New York. He was later re-interred, despite his wish that "no white man dig me up for re-burial." His nickname of Red Jacket came from his alliance with the British against the Colonists during the American Revolution, during which time he took to wearing the coat of a British Officer.

This speech was made before a Council of Confederated Chiefs after they had heard from a white missionary who had arrived and begun to preach to the Natives. I had never heard this speech before, I ran across it in the library today. There is a whole wealth of information about Red Jacket on-line. Wikipedia is always a good place to start, so here's a link to that, followed by the full text of the speech itself. It is majestic.

CEO pay soars while workers' pay stalls

The heads of the nation’s top companies got the biggest raises in recent memory last year after taking a hiatus during the recession.
At a time most employees can barely remember their last substantial raise, median CEO pay jumped 27% in 2010 as the executives’ compensation started working its way back to prerecession levels, a USA TODAY analysis of data from GovernanceMetrics International found. Workers in private industry, meanwhile, saw their compensation grow just 2.1% in the 12 months ended December 2010, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Two years of scaling back amid tough economic times proved temporary as three-quarters of CEOs got raises in 2010 — and, in many cases, the increases were substantial.