Red Jacket

Sa-Co-ye-Wat-Ha, Red Jacket, whose name meant “He keeps them awake,” died at Buffalo Creek on January 20, 1830, at age 78. He warned that when he was gone and his warnings were no longer heeded, the graft and avarice of the white man would prevail, and he feared his people would soon be scattered and forgotten. Also resting here are his compatriots, first buried in the old Mission Cemetery in South Buffalo and removed to this spot in October 1894, including D-Ne-Ho-Geh-Weh, Ely S. Parker, a Sachem of the Six Nations who served as Military Secretary from 1863 to 1865 on Gen. Grant’s staff, became a Brig. Gen. in the U.S.A., and served as U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1869 to 1871; Go-Non-Da-Gie, Destroy-Town; Gui-En-Gwah-Toh, The Young King; Ca-On-Do-Wau-Na, Captain Pollard; Jish-Ja-Ga, Little Billy; and Hut-Goh-So-Do-Neh, Lewis Bennet, known as Deerfoot, the famous Seneca Indian runner, who lived from 1830 to 1896.

Buffalo, New York · United States