Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TECUMSEH
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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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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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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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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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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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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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