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!"
Tecumseh
Shawnee