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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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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
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
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
The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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First Indian Land People Right White
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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Fortune Maker Nothing Own Tribe Tribes
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
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
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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Fault Grovel Lies Living Morning People Resonmjoy Respect Show Yourself
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
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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Birth Destiny Faith Forefather Person Took Warrior World
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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Clad Forest Full Game Grave Mountain Return Valley Warrior
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.”
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Country Governor Landmark Obiterarte Own Return Sir Tear
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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Christ Dead Earth God Jesus Kill Own Son Start
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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Being Break Bundle Single Strength Strong Twig
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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Life Love Native Perfect Thing You

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