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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.

Tecumseh

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.
TECUMSEH

Country Give Man Oppression Personmpeople Powerful Summer Sun Today Tribe Up White
My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
TECUMSEH

Bosom Earth Father Mother Recline Sun
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.
TECUMSEH

Fault Grovel Lies Living Morning People Resonmjoy Respect Show Yourself
Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
TECUMSEH

Death Die Go Hero Home Sing Song
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
TECUMSEH

Abuse Native One Rob Spirit Thing Turn Vision Wise
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
TECUMSEH

Always Even Friend Lonely Medicine Meet Native Pass Place Salute Sign Stranger Word
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
TECUMSEH

Country Death Enter Fear Heart Live Love Native Song You
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
TECUMSEH

Death Going Hero Home Sing Song
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
TECUMSEH

Country Demand Life Native Other Religion Respect Strength Trouble View
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
TECUMSEH

Good Life Morning Strength Thank Thanksgiving
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
TECUMSEH

Dream End Greatness Legend More
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?
TECUMSEH

Children Colour Country Earth Gret Sea Sell Spirit
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
TECUMSEH

Demand One Other Religion Respect Trouble
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.
TECUMSEH

Come Death Fear Fill Life Little More Pray Time Weep Wisdom
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.
TECUMSEH

Claim Common Divide Equal First Justice Land Men Read Stop Way
I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
TECUMSEH

Existence Forefather Own Son Take Warrior

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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