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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

Tecumseh

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
TECUMSEH

Good Life Morning Strength Thank Thanksgiving
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
TECUMSEH

Always Lonely Lying Meet Morning Pass Friend Place Salute Sign Strange Word
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
TECUMSEH

Fortune Maker Nothing Own Tribe Tribes
The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.
TECUMSEH

Claim Common Divide Equal First Justice Land Men Read Stop Way
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
TECUMSEH

Demand One Other Religion Respect Trouble
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.
TECUMSEH

Come Death Fear Fill Life Little More Pray Time Weep Wisdom
We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.
TECUMSEH

Clad Forest Full Game Grave Mountain Return Valley Warrior
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
TECUMSEH

Dream End Greatness Legend More
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
TECUMSEH

Body Country Defend Father Grave Heart Home Let Liberty Warrior
Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other’s battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit.
TECUMSEH

Battle Body Brother Defend Each Father Fight Grave Heart Native Other
I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, “Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country.”
TECUMSEH

Country Governor Landmark Obiterarte Own Return Sir Tear
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
TECUMSEH

Always Even Friend Lonely Medicine Meet Native Pass Place Salute Sign Stranger Word
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
TECUMSEH

Being Break Bundle Single Strength Strong Twig
I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
TECUMSEH

Existence Forefather Own Son Take Warrior
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
TECUMSEH

Death Going Hero Home Sing Song
Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
TECUMSEH

Fault Food Give Joy Lies Living Reason Thanks Yourself

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