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.”
TECUMSEHWhere 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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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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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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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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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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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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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 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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