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

Tecumseh

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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All Beyond Children Game Great Home Made People Spirit Thing Water White
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Day Death Divide Great Noble Over Prepare Song
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.
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Country Give Man Oppression Personmpeople Powerful Summer Sun Today Tribe Up White
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
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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Children Country Each Less Native Other Right Sell Stranger Tribe
Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, ‘Never! Never!’
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Deal Destroyed Everything Grave Know never Ourselves Out Sacred Spirit Struggle
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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Demand One Other Religion Respect Trouble
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.
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Christ Dead Earth God Jesus Kill Own Son Start
I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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Existence Forefather Own Son Take Warrior
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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Battle Body Brother Defend Each Father Fight Grave Heart Native Other
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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Air Children Country Earth Great Make Sea Sell Spirit Use
Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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Death Die Go Hero Home Sing Song
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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Benefactor Brother Death Feeble People Poisonous Serpent String Warmth White
The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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Angry Guest Lying Men Spirit Tell Us
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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Abuse Native One Rob Spirit Thing Turn Vision Wise
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

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

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