the problem here is with the validity of the above quote, since he did not read or write then who recorded this? Most Indian sayings were written much later by newspapermen and most of it was fabricated. He did have a gift for speaking and united the tribes at one point to go to war against the Colonist,  he was killed after a battle that which he sided with the British against the Americans in 1814... his life would suggest otherwise https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tecumseh-Shawnee-chief