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Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

— Tecumseh Debate at the Choctaw and Chickasaw Council (1811)

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It requires all to make a bargain for all.

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One of my legs is shot off! But leave me one or two guns loaded — I am going to have a last shot. Be quick and go!

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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The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided.

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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