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===Silver medal from George Washington=== [[File:PhiladelphiaPresidentsHouse.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[President's House (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)|President's House]], [[Philadelphia]]. Red Jacket met with presidents George Washington, and later John Adams, in the presidential mansion in Philadelphia, when that city was the temporary national capital.]] Red Jacket became famous as an orator, speaking for the rights of his people. His language was beautiful and figurative, and delivered with the greatest ease and fluency.<ref>McKenney & Hall 1870, p. 17.</ref> After the war, he played a prominent role in negotiations with the new United States federal government. In 1792 he led a delegation of 50 Native American leaders to Philadelphia. The US president [[George Washington]] presented him with a special "peace medal", a large oval of silverplate engraved with an image of Washington on the right-hand side shaking Red Jacket's hand; below was inscribed "George Washington", "Red Jacket", and "1792". Red Jacket wore this medal on his chest in every portrait painted of him. The medal was held from 1895 to 2021 in the collection of the [[Buffalo History Museum]].<ref name="bechs">{{Cite web|url=http://artvoice.com/issues/v10n1/art_scene|title=Fact, Fiction & Spectacle: the Trial of Red Jacket|publisher=[[Buffalo History Museum]]|access-date=2013-07-06}}</ref> In May 2021, it was repatriated to the Seneca Nation and is currently held in the collection of the Onöhsagwë:De' Cultural Center, also known as the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum.<ref name="repatriation">{{cite news |last1=McCarthy |first1=Robert J. |title=Red Jacket Medal's long journey ends at Seneca museum |url=https://buffalonews.com/news/local/red-jacket-medals-long-journey-ends-at-seneca-museum/article_e58abce0-b653-11eb-9765-dfb7bd73568c.html |access-date=May 16, 2021 |work=Buffalo News |date=May 16, 2021 |ref=repatriation}}</ref> A formal repatriation ceremony was held on May 17, 2021 at the Seneca Nation's Cultural Centre in Salamanca, since the Native Americans Graves Protection and Repatriation Act recognized Red Jacket's medal as culturally important to the Seneca nation.<ref>Red Jacket Medal Returned to Seneca Nation, 00:00:35 to 00:01:00</ref> The Senecas made a formal request for its return in October 2020, almost 125 years after the Buffalo Historical Society came in the possession of the medal in 1898, when the last living relative of the estate of Red Jacket sold it to the museum.<ref>Red Jacket Medal Returned to Seneca Nation', 00:01:50 to 00:02:10</ref> Red Jacket was also presented with a silver inlaid half-stock long rifle, bearing his initials and Wolf clan emblem in the stock and his later name ''Sagoyewatha'' inlaid on the barrel. This rifle has been in private hands since his death.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
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