Quilts, pillows and other textiles, designed, hand ... - Dorothy Markert
Quilts, pillows and other textiles, designed, hand ... - Dorothy Markert
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RED JACKET<br />
Sa-go-ye-wat-ha (1756?–1830), a Seneca Indian orator<br />
<strong>and</strong> chief. He was called Red Jacket because of his<br />
fondness for the uniform coats given him by British<br />
officers. He joined the British side reluctantly in the<br />
American Revolution <strong>and</strong> was denounced as a coward by<br />
Cornplanter for retreating from the fight at Can<strong>and</strong>aigua<br />
against General John Sullivan's expedition. However,<br />
Red Jacket opposed peace at the council of confederated<br />
tribes at the mouth of the Detroit River in 1786.<br />
In 1792 Red Jacket was one of a group who visited<br />
President Washington at Philadelphia, <strong>and</strong> received a<br />
medal which he always wore with great pride. He upheld<br />
the traditions of his people <strong>and</strong> opposed all white<br />
influences. When New York passed a law forbidding<br />
whites to live on Indian l<strong>and</strong>s, Red Jacket succeeded in<br />
ousting a missionary. He was deposed as chief in 1827<br />
because of his conservatism.<br />
This hanging shows him wearing his large medal, a peace<br />
pipe, the Seneca Mission Church <strong>and</strong> his house on the<br />
Seneca reservation near Buffalo, NY.
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