Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
TECUMSEH
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.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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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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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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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 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.
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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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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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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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