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.
TECUMSEHPrepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.
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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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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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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 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.
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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 Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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