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.
TECUMSEHI am Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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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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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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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