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?
TECUMSEHTrouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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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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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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The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided.”
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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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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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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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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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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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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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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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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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.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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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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