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“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 and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, 'Never! Never!'”

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Tecumseh was a Native American tribal chief of the Shawnee nation. He was a leader who sought to unite Native American tribes against the encroaching United States and played a significant role in the War of 1812. Known for his oratory skills and strategic military mind, Tecumseh was killed in the Battle of the Thames in 1813. more

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