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.
TECUMSEHLive your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, “Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country.”
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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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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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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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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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When Jesus Christ came upon the Earth, you killed Him. The son of your own God. And only after He was dead did you worship Him and start killing those who would not.
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Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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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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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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