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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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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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Air Children Country Earth Great Make Sea Sell Spirit Use
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
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
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
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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Country Demand Life Native Other Religion Respect Strength Trouble View
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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Dream End Greatness Legend More
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Country Grovel Native People Respect
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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Children Colour Country Earth Gret Sea Sell Spirit
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
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
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Appreciation Death Enter Fear Heart Inspirational Live
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
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
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 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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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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