Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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!’
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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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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