Tecumseh

So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart

Trouble no one about their religion* (*word in Indian?)

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 rob s the spirit of its vision

When it comes your turn 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