Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours. — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline. — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence. — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
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. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed… — Tecumseh Copy Share
You, too, will be driven away from your native land and ancient domains as leaves are driven before the wintry storms. Sleep not longer,… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers… 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? The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite… — Tecumseh Copy Share
I am Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world. 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… — Tecumseh Copy Share
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours. — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
