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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.

Tecumseh

No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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Children Country Each Less Native Other Right Sell Stranger Tribe
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
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
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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Good Life Morning Strength Thank Thanksgiving
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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Come Death Fear Fill Life Little More Pray Time Weep Wisdom
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
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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Life Love Native Perfect Thing You
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
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
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
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
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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Always Lonely Lying Meet Morning Pass Friend Place Salute Sign Strange Word
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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Death Going Hero Home Sing Song
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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Deal Destroyed Everything Grave Know never Ourselves Out Sacred Spirit Struggle

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