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Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator

Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator

Densmore, Christopher

Paperback

Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors

Biographies GeneralNative American HistoryRegional: Middle Atlantic

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 081560548X
ISBN13: 9780815605485
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Apr 1 1999
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.51
Language: English

In the first modern biography of Red jacket, Christopher Densmore sheds light on the achievements of this formidable Iroquois diplomat who, as a representative of the Seneca and Six Nations, met and negotiated with American presidents from George Washington to Andrew Jackson.

The political career of Red Jacket (1758-1830) began just before the American Revolution, when both the Americans and the British sought the alliance of the powerful Iroquois Confederacy. By the 1790s, Red Jacket was frequently the diplomat chosen by the Seneca Nation and the Iroquois Confederacy to represent them in councils and treaty negotiations between the United States, the British in Canada, and the Indian nations of the Ohio Country.

Red Jacket spoke eloquently against the sale of Indian lands, against the encroachment of the white man's religion and culture, and in defense of Indian sovereignty. His speeches were widely known in his own lifetime and continue to be reprinted.

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