My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
TECUMSEHShow respect to all people, but grovel to none.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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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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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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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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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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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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Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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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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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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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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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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