Red Jacket

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Red Jacket was a prominent Seneca orator and chief known for his eloquent defense of Native American land rights and traditional culture during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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instanceOf Native American leader
Seneca chief
orator
person
advocated preservation of Seneca lands
retention of Seneca religious practices
alsoKnownAs Keeper Awake
Sa-go-ye-wat-ha
Sagoyewatha
burialPlace Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York
conflictWith Handsome Lake over religious reforms
contemporaryOf Cornplanter
Handsome Lake
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
surface form: United States
dateOfBirth c. 1750
dateOfDeath January 20, 1830
dateSigned Treaty of Canandaigua
surface form: 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua
ethnicity Seneca
honoredIn statues and monuments in Buffalo, New York
knownFor defense of Native American land rights
defense of traditional Seneca culture
eloquence as an orator
opposition to Christian missionary efforts among his people
laterSupported peace with the United States after the American Revolutionary War
legacy celebrated for speeches defending religious freedom
symbol of Native American resistance to dispossession
memberOf Haudenosaunee
Iroquois Confederacy
Seneca nation
surface form: Seneca Nation
namedAfter red British military coat he wore
nativeLanguage Seneca language
notableWork speech "Religion for the White Man and the Red"
speech responding to missionary Jacob Cram in 1805
speeches defending Native American land rights
opposed forced assimilation of Native Americans
sale of Seneca lands to white settlers
participatedIn American Revolutionary War
placeOfBirth near present-day Geneva, New York
placeOfDeath near Buffalo, New York
portraitBy Charles Bird King
Robert Walter Weir
positionHeld Seneca chief
war chief during the American Revolutionary War
religion traditional Seneca beliefs
sidedWith British forces during the American Revolutionary War
signed Treaty of Canandaigua

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