The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
TecumsehWhere 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.
TecumsehLet us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
TecumsehI 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 of 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 to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, "Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country."
Tecumseh