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.
TECUMSEHThe Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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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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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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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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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other’s battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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