Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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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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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 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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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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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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