The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
TECUMSEHNo tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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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 Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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 sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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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!’
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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