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.
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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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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.
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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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Love 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.
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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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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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