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Red Jacket



Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha; 1758?–1830), Seneca chief named for the red coat he wore when an English ally in the Revolution. Later an ally of the United States in the War of 1812, he strongly opposed European customs and Christianity for his people in New York.



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