Tecumseh
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the
Mohican, the Pokanket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They
have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow
before a summer sun.
Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a
struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit,
the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you
will cry with me, “Never! Never!”
--Tecumseh
of the Shawnees