Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
TECUMSEHWhere today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.
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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
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Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
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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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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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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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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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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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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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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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