I am Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world.
TECUMSEHGive 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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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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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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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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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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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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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 a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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