No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
TECUMSEHI would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, “Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country.”
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
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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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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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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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