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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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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