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.
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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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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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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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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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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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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 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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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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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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So 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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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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