The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
TECUMSEHThe 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.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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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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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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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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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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