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The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha, or Red Jacket.


The Collected Speeches Of Sagoyewatha, Or Red Jacket Red Jacket, c.1758–1830, chief of the Seneca, b. probably Seneca co., N.Y. His Native American name was Otetiani, changed to Sagoyewatha when he became a chief.  

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The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha, or Red Jacket is a compilation of the words of Seneca and Six Nations representative Red Jacket, a highly skilled diplomat and one of the most famous Native American orators of the nineteenth century. In a political career spanning from 1790 to 1830, Red Jacket negotiated with American presidents
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 from George Washington to Andrew Jackson, and his legacy influences discussions of native sovereignty and cultural identity to this day. In addition to presenting all of Red Jacket's major political speeches, The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha, or Red Jacket also includes original versions of his speeches to evangelical missionaries and land speculators, for a total of fifty speeches, some previously unpublished. With minor textual tex·tu·al  
adj.
Of, relating to, or conforming to a text.



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 editing so as to be accessible to modern-day lay readers, and featuring essays that offer a detailed historical reference framework, archival research about the interpreters, and the immediate circumstances of each speech, The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha, or Red Jacket is enthusiastically recommended for library and personal Native American studies Native American Studies is an academic discipline that studies the experience of people of Native American ancestry in America. Closely related to other Ethnic studies disciplines such as African American studies, Asian American Studies, and Latino/a Studies, Native American  shelves.
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