My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
TECUMSEHAbuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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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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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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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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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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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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From my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own destiny! And of that I might make the destiny of my red people, of our nation, as great as I conceive to in my mind, when I think of Weshemoneto, who rules this universe!
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Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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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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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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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.
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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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I 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.”
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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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