Grant Lawrence, “Tecumseh and Our Warrior Spirit”
“Tecumseh and Our Warrior Spirit”
by Grant Lawrence
by Grant Lawrence
"I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"It is true I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them I take only my existence; from my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own fortune; and oh! that I could make that of my red people, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the Spirit that rules the universe."
- Tecumseh, the Great Shawnee Chief
At present we all need the warrior spirit. But this spirit should be activated in its highest sense- to sacrifice ourselves to protect our people. But who are our people? Our people is our great mother earth and all of life that is born from her.
A clear understanding shows that we cannot protect those that we love and care about without having compassion and care for the rest of life that sustains us. It is time for us to awaken to the truth. We are not children to be manipulated, poisoned, and destroyed for the wealth and comfort of a very few. Rather we are warriors. That means we can look beyond our own selfishness and think in terms of serving and protecting others even with our own lives.
Tecumseh’s words have as much power today as they did when they were spoken 2 centuries ago: "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."
Indeed, Tecumseh's call to unite stands as the way to defeat the mindset of greed and ignorance that is choking the life of the planet. There is a great war being waged against our mother and the her children. It is time for peaceful warriors to unite, motivated by the warrior spirit to protect their people.”
- http://grantlawrence.blogspot.com/
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Related: “Rediscovering Tecumseh’s Vision” by Village Life
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