Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.
TECUMSEHWhere 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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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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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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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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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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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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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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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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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 clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
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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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