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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.

Tecumseh

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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Body Country Defend Father Grave Heart Home Let Liberty Warrior
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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Benefactor Brother Death Feeble People Poisonous Serpent String Warmth White
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Day Death Divide Great Native Noble Prepare Song
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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Abuse Native One Rob Spirit Thing Turn Vision Wise
The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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Angry Guest Lying Men Spirit Tell Us
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.
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Country Native Oppression People Person Powerful Snow Summer Sun Today Tribe
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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Always Even Friend Lonely Medicine Meet Native Pass Place Salute Sign Stranger Word
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Day Death Divide Great Noble Over Prepare Song
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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Good Life Morning Strength Thank Thanksgiving
Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other’s battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit.
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Battle Body Brother Defend Each Father Fight Grave Heart Native Other
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.”
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Claim Common Divide Evil Land Man Stop Unite Way Wequal
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Country Grovel Native People Respect
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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Fortune Maker Nothing Own Tribe Tribes
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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Claim Common Divide Equal First Justice Land Men Read Stop Way
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
Where 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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Country Give Man Oppression Personmpeople Powerful Summer Sun Today Tribe Up White

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.

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