Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.
TECUMSEHThe Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children; and he gave them strength and courage to defend them.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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From my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own destiny! And of that I might make the destiny of my red people, of our nation, as great as I conceive to in my mind, when I think of Weshemoneto, who rules this universe!
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn’t the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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