166 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



story to all future generations. We have this day witnessed and participated in the 

 culmination of their labors. Red Jacket has been honorably reburied with solemn 

 and ancient rites, and may his remains rest there in peace until time shall be no 

 more. While a silent spectator of the ceremonies to-day, the words of the blessed 

 Saviour forcibly presented themselves to my mind, " the foxes have holes and the birds 

 of the air have nests, but the Son of Man hath not where to lay His head." I applied 

 this saying to the Indian race. They have been buffeted from pillar to post. They 

 once owned much, but now have hardly anything they can call heir own. While 

 living they are not let alone — when dead they are not left unmolested. 



General Parker then exhibited the Eed Jacket medal, presented by 

 order of General Washington, President, in 1792. It is of silver, oval 

 in shape, 7 inches long by 5 inches broad. The general had dressed it 

 in black and white wampum ; the black indicating mourning and the 

 white peace and gladness. 



It was remarked that " the production of this medal was important, 

 because stories, like that about Red Jacket's bones, have for some time 

 been current to the effect that this medal was being exhibited out West 

 years ago. Like Red Jacket's bones, however, it has been carefully 

 preserved, and there is no doubt whatever of its identity." 



A copy of the Red Jacket medal in silver is now in the National 

 Museum. 



COUNCIL OF THE SIX NATIONS AT BUFFALO, OCTOBER 8, 1884. 



At the meeting and council held at the rooms of the Historical Society 

 at Uuffalo, N. Y., October 8, 1884 (the first since the conclusion of 

 the Revolutionary war), to make arrangements for the reinterment of 

 Red Jacket and the fifteen other Senecas, General Ely S. Parker, of 

 New York, one of the fifty sachems of the allied Six Nations, made 

 an address. It was especially interesting and affecting to the Indians 

 present, and was interpreted in their dialect by his brother, Chief 

 Nicholas H. Parker. A council was afterwards organized to make 

 final preparations for the reinterment ceremonies. At a few minutes 

 before 4 o'clock the interpreter announced that the bearers selected 

 for Red Jacket's casket were Chiefs Levi Jonathan, an Onondaga; 

 Benjamin Carpenter, a Cayuga; Henry Clinch, an Oneida; John Era- 

 ser, a Mohawk ; Moses Hill, a Tuscarora, and Andrew Snow, a Sen- 

 eca. To bear the remains of Destroy-Town were Chiefs John Buck, 

 an Onondaga; Joseph Porter, an Oneida; Thomas Isaac, a Tusca- 

 rora, and Peter Powless, a Mohawk. Chiefs David Hill and John 

 Hill, Senecas ; Robert David, a Cayuga ; the Rev. Zachariah Jemison, 

 a Seneca, were selected to carry the casket of Young King. Chiefs 

 Thomas Lay, Silver Smith, William Jones, and John Jacket, all Senecas, 

 were chosen to bear Little Billy's remains; and Chief Nicholas Parker, 

 a Seneca ; John Mountpleasant, a Tuscarora ; Thomas David ana 

 Thomas Jemison, Cayugas, to carry the bones of Tall Peter. A choir 

 was also selected, and Chief John Buck, from Grand River, Canada, 

 the hereditary custodian of the wampum belts of the Six Nations, was 



