Red Jacket | |
|---|---|
| Otetiani, later Sagoyewatha | |
 Red Jacket from an 1835 lithograph by Henry Corbould, after a painting by Charles Bird King, printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, and published in History of the Indian Tribes of North America | |
| Tribal chief of the Wolf clan | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1750 |
| Died | January 20, 1830 |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
| Relatives | Ely S. Parker (great grand-nephew) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Seneca nation |
Red Jacket (known as Otetiani [Always Ready][1] in his youth and Sagoyewatha [Keeper Awake] Sa-go-ye-wa-tha as an adult because of his oratorical skills) (c. 1750 – January 20, 1830) was a Seneca orator and chief of the Wolf clan, based in Western New York.[2] On behalf of his nation, he negotiated with the new United States after the American Revolutionary War, when the Seneca as British allies were forced to cede much land following the defeat of the British; he signed the Treaty of Canandaigua (1794). He helped secure some Seneca territory in New York state, although most of his people had migrated to Canada for resettlement after the Paris Treaty. Red Jacket's speech on "Religion for the White Man and the Red" (1805) has been preserved as an example of his great oratorical style.