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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

Tecumseh

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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Conceive Destiny Mind Nothing Own People Red Rule Think Universe
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.
TECUMSEH

Beautify Life Long Love Make People Perfect Seek Service
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
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
TECUMSEH

Country Death Enter Fear Heart Live Love Native Song You
Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.
TECUMSEH

Benefactor Brother Death Feeble People Poisonous Serpent String Warmth White
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
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
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
TECUMSEH

Good Life Morning Strength Thank Thanksgiving
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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Death Going Hero Home Sing Song
I am Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world.
TECUMSEH

Birth Destiny Faith Forefather Person Took Warrior World
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.
TECUMSEH

Fault Grovel Lies Living Morning People Resonmjoy Respect Show Yourself
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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Air Children Country Earth Great Make Sea Sell Spirit Use
The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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Angry Guest Lying Men Spirit Tell Us
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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Children Country Each Less Native Other Right Sell Stranger Tribe
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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Fault Food Give Joy Lies Living Reason Thanks Yourself
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

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

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