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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.

Tecumseh

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TECUMSEH

Day Death Divide Great Native Noble Prepare Song
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.
TECUMSEH

Come Death Fear Fill Life Little More Pray Time Weep Wisdom
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
TECUMSEH

Demand One Other Religion Respect Trouble
I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, “Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country.”
TECUMSEH

Country Governor Landmark Obiterarte Own Return Sir Tear
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
TECUMSEH

Children Country Each Less Native Other Right Sell Stranger Tribe
Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
TECUMSEH

Death Die Go Hero Home Sing Song
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?
TECUMSEH

Air Children Country Earth Great Make Sea Sell Spirit Use
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
TECUMSEH

Country Grovel Native People Respect
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
TECUMSEH

Dream End Greatness Legend More
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.
TECUMSEH

Country Native Oppression People Person Powerful Snow Summer Sun Today Tribe
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
TECUMSEH

Country Demand Life Native Other Religion Respect Strength Trouble View
When Jesus Christ came upon the Earth, you killed Him. The son of your own God. And only after He was dead did you worship Him and start killing those who would not.
TECUMSEH

Christ Dead Earth God Jesus Kill Own Son Start
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!
TECUMSEH

Conceive Destiny Mind Nothing Own People Red Rule Think Universe
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.
TECUMSEH

Country Give Man Oppression Personmpeople Powerful Summer Sun Today Tribe Up White
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
TECUMSEH

Abuse Native One Rob Spirit Thing Turn Vision Wise
The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
TECUMSEH

Angry Guest Lying Men Spirit Tell Us

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