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Tecumseh , también conocido como Tecumtha o Tekamthi, fue un líder nativo, tanto del pueblo indígena shawnee de Norteamérica como de una gran confederación que se opuso a los Estados Unidos de América del Norte durante la guerra llamada de Tecumseh y la guerra anglo-estadounidense de 1812. Creció en los territorios que, el día 1 de marzo de 1803, se convirtieron en el estado de Ohio, el número 17 en ingresar a la Unión.

Durante su infancia y juventud se sucedieron la guerra de Independencia de los Estados Unidos y la guerra India del Noroeste, conflictos durante los cuales Tecumseh y su gente estuvieron constantemente expuestos a numerosas acciones bélicas y hechos de armas.[1]​

Tecumseh fue uno de los más grandes personajes indígenas en la historia de América del Norte, con una nobleza totalmente propia, ajena a la ciencia o a la ayuda de la educación occidental. Para muchos fue un estadista, un guerrero y un patriota . Un hombre instruido y sabio según la historia y la leyenda, fue una persona respetada y admirada, incluso entre sus enemigos blancos, por su integridad y humanidad .[2]​

En el mundo de habla española, debido a su ubicación en el espacio y el tiempo, hay poca bibliografía sobre él y es menos conocido que otros líderes indígenas asociados con los mitos y realidades del Viejo oeste, tales como los sioux oglala, Makhpyia-luta y Tasunka witko , el sioux hunkpapa, Tatanka Iyotake y los apaches de la tribu Chiricahua, Mangas Coloradas, Cochise y Gerónimo, cuyas imágenes han sido profusamente empleadas en los westerns y las novelas del oeste . Sin embargo, en el mundo de habla inglesa hay cuantiosas referencias al connotado caudillo indígena cuya vida y obra son, además, materia de historiadores, novelistas y guionistas de cine y teatro.

Perteneciente a la tribu shawnee, por nacimiento, se consideraba a sí mismo primero un indio y luchó hasta el final de su existencia por dar a los pueblos indígenas de la región de los Grandes Lagos, el Medio Oeste y, en general, el este del río Misisipi, una conciencia nacional más allá de lo tribal.[3]​ Su esperanza siempre fue unirlos en defensa de una tierra madre en la que pudieran morar bajo sus propias leyes y liderazgos. El hecho de que fallara finalmente significó mucho más que ver a Indiana convertida en un estado blanco en lugar de uno indígena. Significó que todas las tribus fueron reducidas a magros recursos y recorridos por separado, como lo habían sido antes de la invasión original del hombre blanco. Más importante aún, implicó, para siempre la finalización de toda posibilidad de que un estado indio libre pudiera crearse en aquella parte del territorio que, finalmente, fue dominado mediante la compra o las armas por los Estados Unidos.[2]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 1768 – 5. octubre 1813
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Tecumseh: Frases en inglés

“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.”

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Contexto: So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, 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 its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the 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.

As quoted in A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions (1995) by Joel Diederik Beversluis; but also ascribed to some of the Wabasha chiefs, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Wovoka, according to Ernest Thompson Seton, The Gospel of the Red Man: An Indian Bible, San Diego, The Book Tree, 2006, p. 60

“Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the 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.”

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As quoted in A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions (1995) by Joel Diederik Beversluis; but also ascribed to some of the Wabasha chiefs, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Wovoka, according to Ernest Thompson Seton, The Gospel of the Red Man: An Indian Bible, San Diego, The Book Tree, 2006, p. 60
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Contexto: So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, 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 its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the 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.

“When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.”

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Quoted as a statement of Tecumseh in Inspire! : What Great Leaders Do (2004) by Lance H. K. Secretan, p. 67; but also often quoted as an anonymous Shawnee proverb, as in The Soul Would Have No Rainbow If The Eyes Had No Tears (1994) by Guy A. Zona, p. 45
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“The Muscogee was once a mighty people. The Georgians trembled at your war-whoop, and the maidens of my tribe, on the distant lakes, sung the prowess of your warriors and sighed for their embraces. Now your very blood is white; your tomahawks have no edge; your bows and arrows were buried with your fathers. Oh! Muscogees, brethren of my mother, brush from your eyelids the sleep of slavery; once more strike for vengeance; once more for your country. The spirits of the mighty dead complain. Their tears drop from the weeping skies. Let the white race perish! They seize your land, they corrupt your women, they trample on your dead! Back! whence they came, upon a trail of blood, they must be driven! Back! back — ay, into the great water whose accursed waves brought them to our shores! Burn their dwellings! Destroy their stock! Slay their wives and children! The red man owns the country, and the pale-face must never enjoy it! War now! War forever! War upon the living! War upon the dead! Dig their very corpses from the graves! Our country must give no rest to the white man's bones.”

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Speech to the Creek people, quoted in Great Speeches by Native Americans by Robert Blaisdel. This quote appeared in J. F H. Claiborne, Life and Times of Gen. Sam Dale, the Mississippi Partisan (Harper, New York, 1860). However, historian John Sugden writes, "Claiborne's description of Tecumseh at Tuckabatchie in the alleged autobiography of the Fontiersman, Samuel Dale, however, is fraudulent. … Although they adopt the style of the first person, as in conventional autobiography, the passages dealing with Tecumseh were largely based upon published sources, including McKenney, Pickett and Drake's Life of Tecumseh. The story is cast in the exaggerated and sensational language of the dime novelist, with embellishments more likely supplied by Claiborne than Dale, and the speech put into Tecumseh's mouth is not only unhistorical (it has the British in Detroit!) but similar to ones the author concocted for other Indians in different circumstances." Sugden also finds it "unreliable" and "bogus." Sugden, John. "Early Pan-Indianism; Tecumseh’s Tour of the Indian Country, 1811-1812." American Indian Quarterly 10, no. 4 (1986): 273–304. doi:10.2307/1183838.
Misattributed, "Let the White Race Perish" (October 1811)

“The white men aren't friends to the Indians... At first they only asked for land sufficient for a wigwam; now, nothing will satisfy them but the whole of our hunting grounds from the rising to the setting sun.”

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Quoted in Seeking a Nation Within a Nation, CBC Canada https://www.cbc.ca/history/EPCONTENTSE1EP5CH12LE.html

“The whites have driven us from the sea to the lakes. We can go no further... unless every tribe unanimously combines to give a check to the ambition and avarice of the whites they will soon conquer us apart and disunited and we will be driven from our native country and scattered as autumn leaves before the wind.”

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Quoted in Seeking a Nation Within a Nation, CBC Canada https://www.cbc.ca/history/EPCONTENTSE1EP5CH12LE.html

“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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Quoted in Seeking a Nation Within a Nation, CBC Canada https://www.cbc.ca/history/EPCONTENTSE1EP5CH12LE.html