Brothers — My people wish for peace; the red men all wish for peace; but where
the white people are, there is no peace for them, except it be on the bosom of
our mother. Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the
Mohican, the Pokanoket, 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 to us? I know you
will cry with me, Never! NEVER!.
Tecumseh of the Shawnee, 181 1
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