Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TECUMSEHShow 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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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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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 Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
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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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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.
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