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.
TECUMSEHFrom 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!
More Tecumseh Quotes
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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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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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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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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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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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.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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