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.
TecumsehMy father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
TecumsehThe white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
TecumsehTrouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
Tecumseh