Seneca
Seneca Indian chief Red Jacket, or Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha (1758-1830). The summer 1777 campaign of the British in northern New York depended heavily upon their Iroquois allies. Initially the Iroquois attempted to remain neutral and play off one European enemy against another, but the American forces were unwilling to meet them halfway. Eventually, the Oneidas and the Tuscaroras sided with the Americans. Red Jacket led his Senecas against the Americans, and helped create havoc for frontier colonists in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Later, as an orator and defender of traditional Indian ways, Red Jacket refused to allow missionaries to Christianize his people. Copy by an unknown artist of an 1828 portrait by Robert W. Weir.
Seneca chief Red Jacket, or Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha. IRC, 2005 . Image.
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