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.
TECUMSEHShow 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.
TECUMSEHWhen you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
TECUMSEHMy father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
TECUMSEHSell 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?
TECUMSEHLove 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.
TECUMSEHI am Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world.
TECUMSEHSell 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?
TECUMSEHI 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.”
TECUMSEHSing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
TECUMSEHNo tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
TECUMSEHThe white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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.”
TECUMSEHThe Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
TECUMSEHLove your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
TECUMSEHAlways give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
TECUMSEHI am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
TECUMSEH