Red Jacket
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c. 1835 print after a painting
by Charles Bird King
(1785-1862)
Red Jacket
Originally Segoyewatha. 1756?-1830. Seneca leader who advocated peace with the United States while resisting the geographic and cultural encroachment of settlers.
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