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Tecumseh’s Vision

“MY HEART IS A STONE. HEAVY WITH SADNESS FOR MY PEOPLE; cold with the knowledge that NO TREATY will keep the whites out of our land; hard with determination to resist as long as I live and breathe. Now we are weak and many of our people are afraid. But Hear Me: a single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong. Someday I will embrace our brother tribes and draw them into a bundle and together we will win our country back from the whites.”

Tecumseh, Shawnee chief, circa 1795

(Quotation on Assembly of First Nations website – capitalized emphasis added by the AFN –http://www.afn.ca)