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.
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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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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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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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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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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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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.
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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 you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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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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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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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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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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