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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

Tecumseh

The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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First Indian Land People Right White
Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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Death Die Go Hero Home Sing Song
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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Good Life Morning Strength Thank Thanksgiving
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
TECUMSEH

Country Grovel Native People Respect
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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Children Colour Country Earth Gret Sea Sell Spirit
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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Birth Destiny Faith Forefather Person Took Warrior World
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TECUMSEH

Day Death Divide Great Native Noble Prepare Song
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.”
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Country Governor Landmark Obiterarte Own Return Sir Tear
Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
TECUMSEH

Fault Food Give Joy Lies Living Reason Thanks Yourself
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
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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Country Native Oppression People Person Powerful Snow Summer Sun Today Tribe
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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Being Break Bundle Single Strength Strong Twig
The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.
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Claim Common Divide Equal First Justice Land Men Read Stop Way
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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Dream End Greatness Legend More
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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Life Love Native Perfect Thing You
The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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Angry Guest Lying Men Spirit Tell Us

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

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