Red Pole (Shawnee)

Red Pole (Muscquaconocah)[1] was an 18th-century Shawnee leader.

Red Pole
Muscquaconocah
Shawnee leader
Personal details
RelationsBlue Jacket

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 museum.[5]

The United States erected a headstone for Red Pole in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[6]

References
  1. Friedl, Peter (March 2011). "The Impossible Museum". E-flux Journal (23). Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  2. 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.
  3. "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.
  4. "Stories about Mesquakinoe Red Pole. Civil Chief of the Shawnee Indians-1797". Fold3. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  5. 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.
  6. "Grave of Chief Red Pole, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania". Beaver County Indians. 21 September 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2021.


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