Go to Unsolved Mystery Publications Main Index Go to Free account page
Go to frequently asked mystery questions Go to Unsolved Mystery Publications Main Index
Welcome: to Unsolved Mysteries 1 2 3
 
 New Mystery StoryNew Unsolved Mystery UserLogon to Unsolved MysteriesRead Random Mystery StoryChat on Unsolved MysteriesMystery Coffee housePsychic Advice on Unsolved MysteriesGeneral Mysterious AdviceSerious Mysterious AdviceReplies Wanted on these mystery stories
 




Show Stories by
Newest
Recently Updated
Wanting Replies
Recently Replied to
Discussions&Questions
Site Suggestions
Highest Rated
Most Rated
General Advice

Ancient Beliefs
Angels, God, Spiritual
Animals&Pets
Comedy
Conspiracy Theories
Debates
Dreams
Dream Interpretation
Embarrassing Moments
Entertainment
ESP
General Interest
Ghosts/Apparitions
Hauntings
History
Horror
Household tips
Human Interest
Humor / Jokes
In Recognition of
Lost Friends/Family
Missing Persons
Music
Mysterious Happenings
Mysterious Sounds
Near Death Experience
Ouija Mysteries
Out of Body Experience
Party Line
Philosophy
Poetry
Prayers
Predictions
Psychic Advice
Quotes
Religious / Religions
Reviews
Riddles
Science
Sci-fi
Serious Advice
Strictly Fiction
Unsolved Crimes
UFOs
Urban Legends
USM Events and People
USM Games
In Memory of
Self Help
Search Stories:


Stories By AuthorId:


Google
Web Site   

Bookmark and Share



CHIEF TECUMSEH (updated)..................Thunderhead

  Author:  15033  Category:(Interesting) Created:(9/16/2002 10:07:00 PM)
This post has been Viewed (1714 times)

One of my Native American friends gave this to me a long time ago, and I just found it and thought I'd share it. People have always said I'm different. I am different, because I embrace my native upbringing more than my white one, and this really explains much of what I believe:



"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 bow 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 nothing, 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 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."



"No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided." We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.

Brothers -- My people wish for peace; the red men all wish for peace; but where the white people are, there is no peace for them, EXCEPT it be on the bosom of our mother.

Where today are the Pequot? Where today are the Narrangansett, the Mohican, the Pakanoket, 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."

Chief Tecumseh, Shawnee

How it changed my life:

I almost forgot to say, I do not believe that people today are responsible for what people did then. I'm mostly Irish, and obviously not all of my ancestors connected with Natives at all. But what I'm saying is I believe we should be accepting of others with kindness and respect, and that can make up for a lot.

You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or
interesting stories for the world to read and respond to Click here

Scroll all the way down to read replies.

Show all stories by   Author:  15033 ( Click here )

Halloween is Right around the corner.. .







 
Replies:      
Date: 9/16/2002 10:13:00 PM  From Authorid: 21867    Hi Ya Honey,
Incredibly wise words...or as we Maori say "Anei he kupu Mana" - "These are words of prestige/strength". Such similarities between these words...the wairua (spirit) within them...and those of my own people. Love Ya *kiss kiss*
  
Date: 9/16/2002 10:26:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 15033    Amazing isn't it? I sometimes wonder how on earth the will of those white people in the past could have been upheld. My great (followed by a few more greats), grandfather came over here from England as a famous explorer and broke his back (in essence) to help the Natives. He married my Great (followed by a few more greats) grandmother, a Nez Perce. Every white person that married one of my Native ancestors was there to uplift them... not steal, lie, cheat and kill them. So I guess you could say I come from honorable intentions...:-) I just can't uphold the majority of the white race seeing its destructive power hungry motives throughout the entire world. I just kinda look like them is all...hehe!!  
Date: 9/16/2002 10:34:00 PM  From Authorid: 20750    Oh I loved this! Such wise insight & words! Keep the faith & hope of those words Karen!! I love ya! huggs!  
Date: 9/16/2002 10:37:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 15033    I will Moonie!! Love ya, *Hugs*  
Date: 9/16/2002 10:42:00 PM  From Authorid: 53836    this is heartbreaking...I see life the same as in the 1st para, but as I read on, i was once again engulfed by the sorrow of our natives, write on Thunder and thanks for sharing *HUGS*~SpaceCase  
Date: 9/16/2002 10:49:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 15033    Thank you for reading and commenting SpaceCase...yes, it really makes a person feel like they should change the way things are...It does me that way. *HUGS* and love,  
Date: 9/17/2002 2:41:00 AM  From Authorid: 21294    Bravo Thunderhead....I am not Native American, but I have always felt an extreme connection to them. My home is totally Native American, and my hobbies include designing and displaying many, many Native American works. I have a deep passion for Eagles and have at least 60 or more figurines of them, and Native Americans in my home. I so enjoyed reading your post. Thank you, DreamWalker..(aka dreamwalkerlady)  
Date: 9/17/2002 2:44:00 AM  From Authorid: 21294    I would like to share one of my favorite quotes with you, .......BROKEN PROMISES....THEY MADE US MANY PROMISES, BUT THEY KEPT ONLY ONE. THEY PROMISED TO TAKE OUR LAND, AND THEY TOOK IT. CHIEF RED CLOUD. I feel great shame and heartache for what the "WHITE PEOPLE" took from the Indians. My apologies... DreamWalker  
Date: 9/17/2002 5:19:00 AM  From Authorid: 51393    This is beautiful sis,it took me this long to answer these,because of how it made me feel.I have read histories about indian native grounds.Just,about everything you can think of i have seen it and read it quite a bit.I have always been fascinated in indians and how thye have attemted to keep their lives together.The hard work ,they put up and just be taken away from them.I am proud to know my sis is one of them.I love you sis great post!  
Date: 9/17/2002 5:29:00 AM  ( Admin-DNL )   this is a great post TH...thanks for sharing it. ((hugs)) Love ya,
Date: 9/17/2002 5:47:00 AM  From Authorid: 25828    this is nice..i have a book of native american wisdom, they had a lot of wisdom to impart to us.  
Date: 9/17/2002 6:11:00 AM  From Authorid: 54878    was Tecumseh educated at Harvard? who actually wrote this? -- doubt if Lincoln's speech writers could have done better --- sb12  
Date: 9/17/2002 7:17:00 AM  From Authorid: 32070    Hi Thunderhead (spelled it right ) This is a great post and I love the first paragraph so much I am copying it and putting it on my fridge and next to my bed. Thanx for posting it and I hope you are well!!! ((((((hugs)))))))....  
Date: 9/17/2002 8:10:00 AM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 15033    Hi Dreamwalker, your home must be beautiful. My apartment is all pretty much NA too. My dad was an artist and his wood carvings were famous in these parts for NA expressions. I love earthy creations no matter what tribe. Wolves are my favorite...but I love eagles. Enjoy them, soon all the birds of the air will be gone according to prophesy. The Black Nile virus is killing them off already.  
Date: 9/17/2002 8:16:00 AM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 15033    Hi Diana, the thing that gets me is the Natives weren't farmers. They were hunters and gatherers, the way we were ALL intented to eat according to the way we digest food. This method never exhausted the land, and surely never over populated. They moved about seasonally. Then some white people came and said this is all ours, you go live over in this little corner. They got em real drunk so they wouldn't feel like fighting back. But the most ugly thing they did was they brought disease that wiped out more Natives than any war. Sad, but I think they are starting to recover, and the key is taking their educations and health into their own hands. Much Love,  
Date: 9/17/2002 8:17:00 AM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 15033    Thanks for reading it Danielle, Love ya too!!  
Date: 9/17/2002 8:19:00 AM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 15033    Hi Heather, They are incredibly fun people too, if it were truly known to the populous. I can never get enough of their sense of humor.  
Date: 9/17/2002 8:21:00 AM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 15033    I think it was translated, sb12. When they translated some of Chief Josephs words it sounded pretty impressive too. Maybe intellegent people don't have to actually go to Harvard to express themselves well? *Hugs*  
Date: 9/17/2002 8:23:00 AM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 15033    Glad you enjoyed it PL, I'm feeling like a million bucks....that reminds me, I better go pick up another lottery ticket...lol!! *Hugs*  
Date: 9/17/2002 8:56:00 AM  From Authorid: 2030    great post Thunderhead! With some Native American hertage of my own and after extensive reading and observation, the truth is these two cultures could never co-exist. The native American culture was not utopian, stewardship of land was unheard of because with so few natives and so much land it was never needed. Property was what you could carry on your back. Their world view made sense to them and tribal wars determined borders.  
Date: 9/17/2002 6:58:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 15033    Yes, that's also correct from what I've read BCAR. They made occasional wars between other tribes...which cultivated pretty good fighting skills and being keen on strategy. I never did read a true story about any of them surrounding covered wagons and doing "ride by arrowings"...lol!! Thanks for reading and commenting my friend. *Hugs*  
Date: 9/18/2002 10:21:00 AM  From Authorid: 54987    Thankyou for that Thunderhead. I too try to keep the faith - Sioux/Ojibwe. I attend the ceremonies and I do the pipe ceremony whenever I can find a pipe carrier to do it with me. I smudge every morning. It isn't easy to live a natural life. We are so dependent on Walmart (I love Walmart) - Coolade  
Date: 9/18/2002 3:37:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 15033    Hey Coolade, lets go take a sweat lodge together someday...:-) bad medicine at Walmart....lol!!  
Date: 9/18/2002 10:18:00 PM  From Authorid: 177    Chief Tecumseh said it very well. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perze (sp?) made a great speech too "From where the Sun now Stands", and Chief Seattle did one too. I bet you know these ones too.  
Date: 9/18/2002 10:23:00 PM  From Authorid: 177    I have a cousin who lives with an Indian woman (don't know which tribe) in Chelan. He said he had a sweat lodge experience which made him believ in the supernatural.  
Date: 9/19/2002 10:10:00 PM  From Authorid: 21435    Hello Thunderhead. Thank you for sharing this excellant story with us. "Roam the coastal plains. Hunting with red wolves. Place to place when "things" came into season. Into the thick hardwood forests when the cold wind blew. Camp on the bay shore during summer..breathe the salt wind." Thanks for the inspiration, my sister. Love you...  
Date: 2/20/2007 6:54:00 PM  From Authorid: 19586    Thanks for sharing this info with us.  

Find great Easter stories on Angels Feather
Information Privacy policy and Copyrights

Renasoft is the proud sponsor of the Unsolved Mystery Publications website.
See: www.rensoft.com Personal Site server, Power to build Personal Web Sites and Personal Web Pages
All stories are copyright protected and may not be reproduced in any form, except by specific written authorization

Pages:1180 277 1137 1600 181 1227 22 141 171 419 563 1370 1130 11 1182 121 250 923 827 851 1067 1052 1097 60 577 309 770 1120 767 1232 322 697 1337 421 458 1178 826 1157 1034 1094 1339 830 383 349 868 1160 1439 1041 420 1229 662 686 341 498 1365 249 239 638 236 1363 915 1352 1465 758 282 1401 870 1082 891 30 819 1331 258 389 1557 469 789 564 931 1456 903 996 913 1273 958 1111 129 546 1577 1141