I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
TECUMSEHMy father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn’t the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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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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The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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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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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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Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.
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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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