- Leader | 1768 - October 5, 1813
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Tecumseh
LifeFearLiveHeartDeathNever
The white usurpation in our common country must be stopped, or we, its rightful owners, be forever destroyed and wiped out as a race of people. I am now at the head of many warriors backed by the strong arm of English soldiers. Choctaws and Chickasaws, you have too long borne with grievous usurpation inflicted by the arrogant Americans.
I AmPeopleStrongLongYouWhite
Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.
VillageDoneLandLevelChiefsSell
Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
HappinessFreedomOppressionUsNor
I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
GreatMyselfI AmRedPeopleMind
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
GreatDayDeathSongYouGo
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