No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
TECUMSEHLive your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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!’
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Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.
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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.
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I am Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world.
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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.”
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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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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.
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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided.”
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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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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.
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The 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.
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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.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.
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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?
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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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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