SHOW RESPECT TO ALL PEOPLE, BUT GROVEL TO NONE

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about his religion.
Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours.
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
Seek to make your life long and of service to your people.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,
or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light,
for your life, for your strength.
Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools
and robs the spirit of its vision.
When your time comes to die,
be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death,
so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time
to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

– Tecumseh
(1768-1813) Shawnee Chief

Via Liberty Blitzkrieg

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Stucky

Absolutely. Wonderful. This is the type of thing one prints out and frames.

Funny thing …. Tecumseh was MORE Christ-like than the Christians who tried to wipe out his people.

Bostonbob

Stucky,
The line that stands to me is:

“If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.”

More people would do well to heed this advice, we would be a much better nation for it.

Merry Christmas,
Bob.

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

Good post. Most people in this country do not realize that the founding fathers got much of their structure for the constitution from the Indians. They were impressed that everyone in the tribe had a say in the decisions, even the women.

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