Tecumseh
Tecumseh (c. 1768-1813), also Tecumtha or Tekamthi, was a Shawnee chief. He is known for organizing Native American Confederation and leding rebellion of 1809-1811, which is known as Tecumseh's rebellion. He also fought with British in War of 1812.Wisdom & Quotes
- How can we have confidence in the white people? When Jesus Christ came upon the earth, you killed Him and nailed Him to the cross. You thought he was dead, and you were mistaken.
- I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! That I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions on my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe. I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, 'Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country.'
- No tribe has a 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? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
- The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.
- Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.
- Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickawaws, in false security and delusive hopes. … Will not the bones of our dead be plowed up, and their graves turned into plowed fields?
- Now we are weak and many of our people are afraid. But hear me: a single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong. Someday I will embrace our brother tribes and draw them into bundle, and together we will win our country back from the whites.
Muhammed Ali