Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
TECUMSEHWe 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.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided.”
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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Where 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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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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