Sagoyewatha: Chief Red Jacket Seneca Leader Orator

This video is for the Grandfather, Chief Red a respected Leader and Orator of the Seneca People. There are also videos in this channel, for The Seneca People. . and another separate video with his speech in 1805, entitled: Religion for the White Man and the Red. Chief Red Jacket is a Seneca Chief and Orator, also known as Sagoyewatha, (may have) been born in 1758, at Canoga (on Cayuga Lake in western New York) and is a member of the Seneca Wolf clan. He enters historical record around the time of the American Revolution when he is said to have habitually worn a red coatprovided him by the British, who employed him as a messenger. Thus, rhe origin of his English name: Red Jacket. When the War of 1812 broke out, Chief Red Jacket, like many other Seneca, became an ally of the United States, fighting bravely at the battles of: Fort George (August 17th 1813)