Editing Red Jacket (section)

===Diplomacy===

In 1794, Red Jacket was a signatory, along with [[Cornplanter]], [[Handsome Lake]], and fifty other [[Iroquois]] leaders, of the [[Treaty of Canandaigua]], by which they were forced to cede much of their land to the United States due to the defeat of their British ally during the war. Britain had ceded all its claims to land in the colonies without consulting the Iroquois or other Native American allies.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Canandaigua Treaty of the 1794 |url=http://canandaigua-treaty.org/The_Canandaigua_Treaty_of_1794.html |access-date = 2008-01-08 }}</ref> The treaty confirmed peace with the United States, as well as the boundaries of the postwar [[the Phelps and Gorham Purchase|Phelps and Gorham Purchase]] (1788) of most of the Seneca land east of the [[Genesee River]] in western New York.

In 1790 the [[Public Universal Friend]] and the Philadelphia [[Society of Friends]] were the first settlers in the formerly Seneca region. Despite the pillaging of the Native River-Settlement in Ah-Wa-Ga [[Owego, New York]], by generals Clinton and Sullivan during the Revolutionary War, the Society made peace with the wary [[Seneca people|Seneca]] tribe. The Seneca Tribe made peace with settlers in the Finger Lakes region, but they suffered hardship in the [[Genesee County, New York|Genesee Region]] and other parts of Western New York.<ref>Wisbey, Herbert A., Jr. (2009). ''Pioneer Prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson the Publick Universal Friend''. Cornell Press.</ref>

In 1797, by the Treaty of Big Tree, [[Robert Morris (merchant)|Robert Morris]] paid $100,000 to the Seneca for rights to some of their lands west of the Genesee River. (This area developed as present-day [[Geneseo (village), New York|Geneseo]] in [[Livingston County, New York|Livingston County]]). Red Jacket had tried to prevent the sale but, unable to persuade the other chiefs, he gave up his opposition. As often occurred, Morris used gifts of [[liquor]] to the Seneca men{{citation needed|date=June 2021}} and trinkets to the women to "grease" the sale.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Goldman |first1=Mark |title=High hopes : the rise and decline of Buffalo, New York |date=1983 |publisher=[[State University of New York Press]] |location=Albany |isbn=9780873957342 |page=28}}</ref> Morris had previously purchased the land from Massachusetts, subject to the Indian title, then sold it to the [[Holland Land Company]] for speculative development. He retained only [[the Morris Reserve]], an estate near the present-day city of [[Rochester, Monroe County, New York|Rochester]]. During the negotiations, Brant was reported to have told an insulting story about Red Jacket. [[Cornplanter]] intervened and prevented the Seneca leader from attacking and killing Brant.<ref>[http://mountainlaurelreview.com/sections/cornplanter/cornplanter_current.html ''The Cornplanter Chronicles,'' Vol. 4, part 7], ''Mountain Laurel Review''</ref>

[[File:Red Jacket monument.jpg|thumb|Monument at [[Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo, New York)|Forest Lawn Cemetery]]; sculpted by [[James G. C. Hamilton]].]]