Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
TECUMSEHGive thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
TECUMSEHSing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
TECUMSEHMy father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
TECUMSEHFrom 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!
TECUMSEHLove your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
TECUMSEHA single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
TECUMSEHShow respect to all people, but grovel to none.
TECUMSEHSell 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?
TECUMSEHPrepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TECUMSEHLet us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
TECUMSEHWill 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!’
TECUMSEHNo tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
TECUMSEHSing your death song and die like a hero going home.
TECUMSEHLive your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
TECUMSEHWhen 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.
TECUMSEHWhen you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
TECUMSEH