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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.

Tecumseh

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
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.
TECUMSEH

Conception Country Fortune Great Justice Make Mind Own People Person Read Rule Thinking Universe
My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
TECUMSEH

Bosom Earth Father Mother Recline Sun
The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
TECUMSEH

First Indian Land People Right White
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TECUMSEH

Day Death Divide Great Noble Over Prepare Song
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
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
TECUMSEH

Demand One Other Religion Respect Trouble
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
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
TECUMSEH

Being Break Bundle Single Strength Strong Twig
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
TECUMSEH

Dream End Greatness Legend More
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!
TECUMSEH

Conceive Destiny Mind Nothing Own People Red Rule Think Universe
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun.
TECUMSEH

Country Give Man Oppression Personmpeople Powerful Summer Sun Today Tribe Up White
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
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
TECUMSEH

Life Love Native Perfect Thing You
Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
TECUMSEH

Children Colour Country Earth Gret Sea Sell Spirit
Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, ‘Never! Never!’
TECUMSEH

Deal Destroyed Everything Grave Know never Ourselves Out Sacred Spirit Struggle

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