Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
TECUMSEHThe 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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Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, ‘Never! Never!’
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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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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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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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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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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From my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own destiny! And of that I might make the destiny of my red people, of our nation, as great as I conceive to in my mind, when I think of Weshemoneto, who rules this universe!
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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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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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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