Sermons

Perhaps we don’t know them because they were from an oral culture, not written. Or because their stories usually had something to do with resisting the expansion of the wasichu into their territory. Maybe it reminds us of “white guilt”- even though these things happened before we were born or before our ancestors came here. Or maybe the old stories of heroism, bravery, loyalty, honor and justice slipped out of our culture because that was part of the plan 200 years ago.
Tecumseh (Teh-cum-séh´) was Shawnee. He noticed:

“Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket? … Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, “Never! Never!” - Tecumseh of the Shawnees

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