Editing Red Jacket (section)

{{Short description|Seneca chief (d. 1830)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| office = [[Tribal chief]] of the Wolf [[clan]]
| name = Red Jacket
| image = Red Jacket 2.jpg
| caption = 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]]''
| birth_date = 1750
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| death_date = January 20, 1830
| death_place = 
| resting_place = [[Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo, New York)|Forest Lawn Cemetery]],<br /> [[Buffalo, New York]], U.S.
| relatives     = [[Ely S. Parker]] (great grand-nephew)
| allegiance = [[Seneca nation]]
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| parents = 
| native_name = '''''Otetiani''''', later '''''Sagoyewatha'''''
}}
'''Red Jacket''' (known as '''''Otetiani''''' [Always Ready]<ref name=parkerxxiii>Parker 1952, Preface p. xxiii.</ref> in his youth and '''''Sagoyewatha''''' [Keeper Awake] ''Sa-go-ye-wa-tha'' as an adult because of his oratorical skills) ({{circa|1750}} – January 20, 1830) was a [[Seneca people|Seneca]] orator and [[Tribal chief|chief]] of the Wolf [[clan]], based in [[Western New York]].<ref name="MAGDE">{{cite book |last= Maine League of Historical Societies and Museums |editor=Doris A. Isaacson |title=Maine: A Guide 'Down East' |year=1970 |publisher=Courier-Gazette, Inc. |location=Rockland, ME | pages = 260–261 }}</ref> 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.