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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.” quote by Tecumseh — Download Open image

“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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

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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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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

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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. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed…

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You, too, will be driven away from your native land and ancient domains as leaves are driven before the wintry storms. Sleep not longer,…

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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…

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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. 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…

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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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