Editing Red Jacket (section)

===Relationship with Joseph Brant===
There was a mutual dislike between Red Jacket and Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea).<ref>McKenney & Hall, Volume Two, 1870, Pg. 282.</ref> They were rival politicians and each was the leading man among their own people. Since the Senecas and the Mohawks were the principal nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, each sought the first place in the confederacy. Both were artful and eloquent men; while Brant had the advantage of education and travel, Red Jacket was superior in devotion to his people.

Joseph Brant was a bold and sagacious warrior. Red Jacket, on the other hand, disliked war and bloodshed.<ref>McKenney & Hall, Volume Two, 1870, Pg. 282</ref> Red Jacket considered that the Senecas could only be free so long as they remained true to their culture. He believed that every art and custom of 'civilization' which they adopted increased their dependency on the Euro-American society.

While Brant maintained a friendly relationship with the English throughout his life, favouring the introduction of agriculture to the Mohawks and converting to the Christian faith in early life, Red Jacket opposed the missionaries, the Christian religion, and everything that originated from the oppressors of his people.<ref>McKenney & Hall, Volume Two, 1870, Pg. 283.</ref> Following some alleged land speculations against Brant in 1803, Red Jacket was successful in removing him from the chieftainship of the Confederacy. However, at a subsequent council, Brant was able to get this decision reversed.<ref> McKenney & Hall, Volume Two, 1870, Pg. 282</ref>