160 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



The Rev. Aslier Wright was a faithful missionary among the Senecas for nearly half 

 a century. 



There was no opportunity afforded Hotchkiss and his companions to fraudulently 

 substitute another skeleton, had they been so disposed. I knew Hotchkiss well and 

 have his written statement of the facts. Farwell, who still lives, and is a very repu- 

 table man, says that when the remains were surrendered to the Indians the skull had 

 (as it has now) clinging to it in places a thin crust of plaster of Paris, showing that 

 an attempt had been made to take a cast of it, which probably was arrested by the 

 irruption of Two Guns and his band. 



I have dictated the foregoing, because on reperusal of your esteemed letter I dis- 

 covered I had not met the question which was in your mind when you wrote Mr. Mar- 

 shall, and I greatly fear that I have wearied you by reciting details with which you 

 were already familiar. 



The old mission cemetery, I grieve to say, has been invaded by white foreigners, 

 who are burying their dead there with a stolid indifference to every sentiment of 

 justice or humanity. 



Yours, very respectfully, 



WILLIAM C. BRYANT. 



(Transactions Buffalo Historical Society, vol. 3, 1885.) 



REINTERMENT OF RED JACKET. 



October 9, 1884, Eed Jacket's remains were interred in Forest Lawn 

 Cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y., along with those of fourteen other Senecas, 

 with imposing ceremonies, under the auspices of the Buffalo Historical 

 Society. A monument is to be erected, a plan of which is given, to- 

 gether with details as to the reinterment ceremonies, in a volume, en- 

 titled "Bed Jacket, transactions of the Buffalo Historical Society, vol- 

 ume III, containing an account of the ceremonies observed and the ad- 

 dresses delivered on the occasion of the reinterment of Eed Jacket and 

 his compatriots, in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, October 9, 1884 ; 

 also historical papers, relating to the Iroquois, contributed by Horatio 

 Hale, esq., General Ely S. Parker, and others. One volume, octavo, 130 

 pages, illustrated, 1885." 



The Buffalo Historical Society, of Buffalo, K Y., began the agitation 

 of the question of the reinterment of the remains of Eed Jacket about 

 1863; a series of meetings were held through twenty years, which finally 

 culminated, on October 9, 1884, in the reinterment of the remains of Eed 

 Jacket, with five known and nine unknown Senecas, in Forest Lawn 

 Cemetery, Buffalo, K. Y. Delegations of the several tribes of the Six 

 Nations were present, and addresses were made in the Indian tongue 

 by several chiefs and headmen. The ceremonies were held on Wednes- 

 day and Thursday, October 8 and 9. Addresses were also delivered 

 by William C. Bryant, esq., and Hon. George W. Clinton, and others. 



At the conclusion of Mr. Bryant's address at the grave, Chief John 

 Buck, the hereditary " keeper of the wampum belts," arose, holding in 

 his hand a belt of wampum kept by the nation for over two hundred 

 years. The other Indians (in all about fifty representatives of the Six 



