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 nothing,
For abuse turns the wise ones

Into fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
When it comes your time 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."
Tecumseh -1808 - Sault Ste. Marie