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My heart is a stone: heavy with sadness for my people; cold with the knowledge that no treaty will keep whites out of our lands; hard with the determination to resist as long as I live and breathe.
Touch the Earth: A Self-portrait of Indian Existence (1973)
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.
Debate at the Choctaw and Chickasaw Council (1811)
Brothers, The white people send runners amongst us; they wish to make us enemies, that they may sweep over and desolate our hunting grounds, like devastating winds, or rushing waters.
Tecumseh to the Osages (1811)
The annihilation of our race is at hand unless we unite in one common cause against the common foe.
Debate at the Choctaw and Chickasaw Council (1811)
Any sale not made by all is not valid.
Tecumseh to Governor Harrison (1810)
The white men aren't friends to the Indians... At first they only asked for land sufficient for a wigwam; now, nothing will satisfy them but the whole of our hunting grounds from the rising to the setting sun.
Brothers — My people wish for peace; the red men all wish for peace; but where the white people are, there is no peace for them, except it be on the bosom of our mother.
Debate at the Choctaw and Chickasaw Council (1811)
Brothers, the white men despise and cheat the Indians; they abuse and insult them; they do not think the red men sufficiently good to live. The red men have borne many and great injuries; they ought to suffer them no longer.
Tecumseh to the Osages (1811)
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