Red Pole (Shawnee) Explained
Red Pole (Muscquaconocah)[1] was an 18th-century Shawnee leader.
He is believed to be a brother of Blue Jacket. He led a delegation to negotiations for the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, which ended the Northwest Indian War,[2] and was a signatory.[3] His name was transcribed as Misquacoonacaw on the treaty.
Red Pole accompanied Blue Jacket to Philadelphia in November 1798, and met with President George Washington.[4] His likeness, along with Blue Jacket, was represented as a wax figure by Charles Willson Peale at his Philadelphia Museum.[5]
The United States erected a headstone for Red Pole in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[6]
Notes and References
- The Impossible Museum . Peter . Friedl . 23 . March 2011 . E-flux Journal . 25 October 2021.
- Book: Sword, Wiley . President Washington's Indian War: The Struggle for the Old Northwest, 1790-1795 . Norman . University of Oklahoma Press . 1985 . 0-8061-2488-1 . 329.
- Web site: Ratified Indian Treaty 23: Wyandot, Delaware, Shawnee, Ottawa, Chippewa, Potawatomi, Eel River, Wea, Kickapoo, Piankashaw, and Kaskaskia - Greenville, August 3, 1795 . . 7 . 25 October 2021.
- Web site: Stories about Mesquakinoe Red Pole. Civil Chief of the Shawnee Indians-1797 . Fold3 . 25 October 2021.
- Keller . Laura . 2015 . "The Art of Civilization" America on Display in Peale's Museum . Arizona State University . 97–8 . 25 October 2021.
- Web site: Grave of Chief Red Pole, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . 21 September 2021 . Beaver County Indians . 25 October 2021.
