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.
TECUMSEHWhere 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.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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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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When Jesus Christ came upon the Earth, you killed Him. The son of your own God. And only after He was dead did you worship Him and start killing those who would not.
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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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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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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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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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Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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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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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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.
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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