Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TECUMSEHSing your death song and die like a hero going home.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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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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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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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
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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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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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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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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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