Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
TECUMSEHSing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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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 a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
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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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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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 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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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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