| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator. By Christopher Densmore. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999. xxvi, 166 pp. Cloth, $34.95, isbn 0-8156-2785-8. Paper, $16.95, isbn 0-8156-0548-X.)

While the average citizen possesses limited knowledge of the history of the aboriginal peoples of this continent, a few prominent individuals have entered the general consciousness such that their names are widely recognized. Both the Sioux chief Sitting Bull and the Apache leader Geronimo are examples of Indians whose careers earned them such a position. For many years before his death (1830) and for some time thereafter, Red Jacket, the crusty Seneca orator, enjoyed similar fame. His biography was the first in the three-volume collection of Indian lives by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall (History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 1836–1844). William L. Stone had published his Life and Times of Red-Jacket in 1841. For a time the use of Red Jacket's name on patent medicines and other products was deemed of commercial value, but as years passed his name became less familiar to those lacking a detailed knowledge of Seneca history. . . .

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