Post:"Doing some deep reading into Cherokee history for the project that I'm working on and I am continually amazed how fucking funny old Cherokee leaders were" Book excerpt:"Drowning Bear's principal influence. however, was in holding his people to the mountains and to the old religion of the mountains. He did not succumb to Christian missionaries, but after listening to one or two chapters of the Bible, remarked, 'It seems to be a good book—strange that the white people are not better, after having had it so long.' And"
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"I have heard that you wish me to go to church. I would not then know whether I had to go to the church of the French, the Spanish, or the Americans, or to the church of the Methodists, the Quakers, or the Presbyterians. I tell you again, you must become one people, and then I may come and be one with you."

-Tecumseh

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