Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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- Tecumseh
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- Quoted in Seeking a Nation Within a Nation, CBC Canada
- Culture / tradition
- Shawnee
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Photo: Frank Kovalchek from Anchorage, Alaska, USA · CC BY 2.0 · source · Portrait: attributed to Owen Staples (1866–1949), based on the engraving published by Benson John Lossing [ (Public domain)
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