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Red Jacket
Nation: Seneca
Born/Died: 1750?-1830
Red Jacket was a famous Indian leader and a noted orator. He resisted influence by the whites and strongly discouraged Christian missionaries and other whites. Though he wished to keep the traditional ways of life, he encouraged his tribe to live in peace witht he white-skinned strangers. War could only mean the destruction of his race.

Red jacket received his name when a Brtish officer rewarded him wth a red jacket during the Revolutionary War in America. He served as the official spokesman of the Iroquois Confederacy, and at hi height of influence, he was called Sagoyewatha, which means "He Keeps Them Awake." Like many other Indians, "Red Jacket died of Cholera on the Buffalo Creek Reservation in New York. A monument of the Seneca leader stands in Buffalo, N.Y"-World Book Encyclopedia 1991

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