The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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.
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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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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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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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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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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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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