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Excerpt from The Birth-Place of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or the Indian Red Jacket: The Great Orator of the Senecas, With a Few Incidents of His Life
From the evidence of Red Jacket, he could only have been about a year old when the British took Niagara in 1759, and consequently only about twenty one years old at the time of the Sullivan campaign in 1779, at which time he was not a chief although pos sessing some influence. Nothing more is heard of him until the great Indian treaty at Fort Stanwix in 1784, where Col. Stone and others have ascribed his presence, and where it is stated he made a speech. Mr. Ketchum, however in his Buffalo and the Senecas insists that he was nota chief as early as 1784 and endeavors to prove that he was not present at the Fort Stanwix treaty, and also states that the first authentic record of Red Jacket having made a public speech was at thegreat Indian council held at the mouth of the Detroit river in 1786. At this place he did indeed deliver a master piece of oratory, ' and every warrior present was carried away by his eloquence.
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