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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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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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Being Break Bundle Single Strength Strong Twig
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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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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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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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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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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We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.
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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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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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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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