The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
TecumsehMy father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
TecumsehSell 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?
TecumsehI am Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world. From my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own destiny! And of that I might make the destiny of my red people, of our nation, as great as I conceive to in my mind, when I think of Weshemoneto, who rules this universe!
Tecumseh