Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator Contributor(s): Densmore, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 081560548X ISBN-13: 9780815605485 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1999 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Native American & Aboriginal - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - History | Native American |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 98-29828 |
Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors |
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.6" W x 8.51" (0.52 lbs) 192 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - New York |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |