So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
TECUMSEHSo live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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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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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.
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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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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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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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The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children; and he gave them strength and courage to defend them.
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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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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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