Tecumseh Quote

My father! The Great Spirit is my father! The earth is my mother — and on her bosom I will recline.


Council at Vincennes, Indiana Territory [August 14, 1810]. Answer to request to sit at "his father's" (Governor William Henry Harrison's) side


My father! The Great Spirit is my father! The earth is my mother — and on her bosom I will recline.

My father! The Great Spirit is my father! The earth is my mother — and on her bosom I will recline.

My father! The Great Spirit is my father! The earth is my mother — and on her bosom I will recline.

My father! The Great Spirit is my father! The earth is my mother — and on her bosom I will recline.