Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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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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