“So live your life that the fear of
death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about their religion.
Respect others in their view, and demand
that they respect yours.
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 no thing, for abuse
turns the wise ones to 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.”
Chief Tecumseh ( Film Act of Valor)