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I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe.

Tecumseh

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?
TECUMSEH

Air Children Country Earth Great Make Sea Sell Spirit Use
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
TECUMSEH

Always Lonely Lying Meet Morning Pass Friend Place Salute Sign Strange Word
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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All Beyond Children Game Great Home Made People Spirit Thing Water White
My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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Bosom Earth Father Mother Recline Sun
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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Demand One Other Religion Respect Trouble
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Appreciation Death Enter Fear Heart Inspirational Live
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
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.”
TECUMSEH

Country Governor Landmark Obiterarte Own Return Sir Tear
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
TECUMSEH

Children Country Each Less Native Other Right Sell Stranger Tribe
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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God Gratitude Life Morning Rise Strength Thank Thankful
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 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
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
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.
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Beautify Life Long Love Make People Perfect Seek Service
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
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Country Death Enter Fear Heart Live Love Native Song You

I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe.

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I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe.

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