Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
TECUMSEHPrepare 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.
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Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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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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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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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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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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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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