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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Tecumseh

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.
TECUMSEH

Battle Body Brother Defend Each Father Fight Grave Heart Native Other
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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Country Native Oppression People Person Powerful Snow Summer Sun Today Tribe
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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Clad Forest Full Game Grave Mountain Return Valley Warrior
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
TECUMSEH

Country Grovel Native People Respect
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
TECUMSEH

Abuse Native One Rob Spirit Thing Turn Vision Wise
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TECUMSEH

Day Death Divide Great Noble Over Prepare Song
From 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!
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Conceive Destiny Mind Nothing Own People Red Rule Think Universe
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
TECUMSEH

Death Going Hero Home Sing Song
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?
TECUMSEH

Air Children Country Earth Great Make Sea Sell Spirit Use
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
TECUMSEH

Life Love Native Perfect Thing You
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
TECUMSEH

Always Lonely Lying Meet Morning Pass Friend Place Salute Sign Strange Word
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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Being Break Bundle Single Strength Strong Twig
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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Children Country Each Less Native Other Right Sell Stranger Tribe
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TECUMSEH

Day Death Divide Great Native Noble Prepare Song
Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, ‘Never! Never!’
TECUMSEH

Deal Destroyed Everything Grave Know never Ourselves Out Sacred Spirit Struggle
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
TECUMSEH

Good Life Morning Strength Thank Thanksgiving

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