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.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

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.

Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.

I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.