Red Jacket
Seneca chief (1750-1830) · United States · Politicians · Died at 80
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Something wrong?Red Jacket was a Seneca orator and chief of the Wolf clan, based in Western New York.
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President's House, Philadelphia. Red Jacket met with presidents George Washington, and later John Adams, in the presidential mansion in Philadelphia, when that city was the temporary national capital.
Monument at Forest Lawn Cemetery; sculpted by James G. C. Hamilton.
Red Jacket by George Catlin. 1827. Watercolour on paper.
About this person
Red Jacket was a Seneca orator and chief of the Wolf clan, based in Western New York. On behalf of his nation, he negotiated with the new United States after the American Revolutionary War, when the Seneca as British allies were forced to cede much land following the defeat of the British; he signed the Treaty of Canandaigua (1794). He helped secure some Seneca territory in New York state, although most of his people had migrated to Canada for resettlement after the Paris Treaty. Red Jacket's speech on "Religion for the White Man and the Red" (1805) has been preserved as an example of his great oratorical style.
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