Author : John N. Hubbard
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ISBN 13 : 9781409982654
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (826 download)
Book Synopsis An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha; Or, Red Jacket and His People, 1750-1830 (Dodo Press) by : John N. Hubbard
Download or read book An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha; Or, Red Jacket and His People, 1750-1830 (Dodo Press) written by John N. Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Jacket (known as Otetiani in his youth and Sagoyewatha after 1780) (c. 1750-1830) was a Native American Seneca orator and chief of the Wolf clan. He played a prominent role in negotiations with the new federal government. In 1792 he was heading a delegation of 50 people to Philadelphia where president George Washington presented him with a special "peace medal," a large oval silver plate showing an image of Washington on the right hand side shaking his hand engraved upon it, below the inscription "George Washington," "Red Jacket," and "1792." In 1794, Red Jacket was a signatory along with Cornplanter and fifty other Iroquois, of the Treaty of Canandaigua confirming peace with the United States and the earlier boundaries of 1788 the Phelps and Gorham Purchase of most of the Seneca land east of the Genesee River in western New York. Red Jacket took this name, one of several, for a highly favored embroidered coat given to him by the British for his wartime services.