“You are a liar! …

“How can we have confidence in the white people?  When Jesus Christ came on earth, you killed and nailed him on a cross.  You thought he was dead, but you were mistaken …  Everything I have said to you is the truth. The Great Spirit has inspired me and I speak nothing but the truth to you.”

— Tecumseh, Shawnee warrior and leader; spoken in council, August                  15, 1810, to William Henry Harrison, then Governor of the                              Indiana Territory, later to become the ninth President of the                              United States.

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Cited in Allan W. Eckert, A Sorrow In Our Heart:  The Life of Tecumseh, p. 630.