Red Pole | |
|---|---|
| Muscquaconocah | |
| Shawnee leader | |
| Personal details | |
| Relations | Blue Jacket |
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]
- ^ Friedl, Peter (March 2011). "The Impossible Museum". E-flux Journal (23). Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ^ Sword, Wiley (1985). President Washington's Indian War: The Struggle for the Old Northwest, 1790-1795. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 329. ISBN 0-8061-2488-1.
- ^ "Ratified Indian Treaty 23: Wyandot, Delaware, Shawnee, Ottawa, Chippewa, Potawatomi, Eel River, Wea, Kickapoo, Piankashaw, and Kaskaskia - Greenville, August 3, 1795". National Archives. p. 7. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ^ "Stories about Mesquakinoe Red Pole. Civil Chief of the Shawnee Indians-1797". Fold3. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ^ Keller, Laura (2015). "The Art of Civilization" America on Display in Peale's Museum (PDF) (Thesis). Arizona State University. pp. 97–8. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ^ "Grave of Chief Red Pole, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania". Beaver County Indians. 21 September 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2021.