Hello everyone, this is Andrew from Iroquois History and Legends.

Caleb and I dedicated an entire episode to the Life of Red Jacket,

but it just became too long, so we decided to split it into two episodes.

So please sit back and listen to Part 2 and the conclusion on the Life of Red Jacket.

Music of Red Jacket. in Red Jacket's life, he becomes very anti-colonial, anti-American.

All the things he warned about at the Big Tree Conference are happening,

but people didn't listen. They were enticed by liquor, and as he saw it, that they

bribed the clan mothers and the other people. He really started to pull back, and he really

wanted to keep to his Seneca traditions. He saw that the more that

people interacted with these Americans, the more they picked up their ugly habits. Drinking

and gambling and domestic violence is starting to become an issue. Red Jacket's not alone

in this. Even President Washington is hearing about problems that indigenous people are facing and he actually is

writing in letters to his cabinet. I'm not going to read the whole letters, but I'm just going

to pull some things out of here to show that Washington does have some bit of care. He says,

quote, in a short period, the idea of an Indian on this side of the Mississippi will only be found in the page of the historian.

So that's where Washington's realizing that, hey, if we don't do something,

either they're all going to be extinct or they're all going to have to move west.

He's trying to figure out how he can solve this problem. Unfortunately, his solution is

assimilation. He and a lot of other like-minded people who had the Native Americans best interest

got heart. Even Reverend Samuel Kirkland thought it would be best for the nations to adopt

an agrarian model of living like the other settlers.

And as Caleb has alluded to before, it just wasn't possible for them anymore to travel hundreds of miles to hunt in this spot and then another dozen miles to fish in this place and stay home and keep watch on the crops.

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