Ahweyneyonhn was a Native American in the Seneca Tribe of the Iroquois Nation. Her name means 'Drooping Blue Flower'. Her name is also spelled Ahweyne-youn by some. The year 1730 is an estimate of her year of birth.
She was the mother of Sagoyewatha (abt 1758-1830), historically known as 'Red Jacket', who was Chief of the Seneca Wolf Clan. His name meant 'He keeps them awake', a reference to his oratorical skills. Otetiani, which means 'Always Ready', was his original birth name. His father may have been a Cayuga. The name 'Red Jacket' was given to him by the British soldiers who had given him a heavily embroidered red coat when he fought with the British against the colonies.
Ahweyneyonh and her husband lived in a cabin on Lake Keuka along Basswood Creek near Branchport. According to Red Jacket himself as well as pioneer Asa Brown, who lived with the family, he was born near the sandbar on the the western branch of Lake Keuka, by Basswood Creek. Others have speculated that Red Jacket's birth place was Geneva, Canoga, Ganundewah, or Canandaigua Lake. A stone monument identifies the spot where Ahweyneyonh is believed to be buried.
She was the mother of Sagoyewatha (abt 1758-1830), historically known as 'Red Jacket', who was Chief of the Seneca Wolf Clan. His name meant 'He keeps them awake', a reference to his oratorical skills. Otetiani, which means 'Always Ready', was his original birth name. His father may have been a Cayuga. The name 'Red Jacket' was given to him by the British soldiers who had given him a heavily embroidered red coat when he fought with the British against the colonies.
Ahweyneyonh and her husband lived in a cabin on Lake Keuka along Basswood Creek near Branchport. According to Red Jacket himself as well as pioneer Asa Brown, who lived with the family, he was born near the sandbar on the the western branch of Lake Keuka, by Basswood Creek. Others have speculated that Red Jacket's birth place was Geneva, Canoga, Ganundewah, or Canandaigua Lake. A stone monument identifies the spot where Ahweyneyonh is believed to be buried.
Ahweyneyonhn was a Native American in the Seneca Tribe of the Iroquois Nation. Her name means 'Drooping Blue Flower'. Her name is also spelled Ahweyne-youn by some. The year 1730 is an estimate of her year of birth.
She was the mother of Sagoyewatha (abt 1758-1830), historically known as 'Red Jacket', who was Chief of the Seneca Wolf Clan. His name meant 'He keeps them awake', a reference to his oratorical skills. Otetiani, which means 'Always Ready', was his original birth name. His father may have been a Cayuga. The name 'Red Jacket' was given to him by the British soldiers who had given him a heavily embroidered red coat when he fought with the British against the colonies.
Ahweyneyonh and her husband lived in a cabin on Lake Keuka along Basswood Creek near Branchport. According to Red Jacket himself as well as pioneer Asa Brown, who lived with the family, he was born near the sandbar on the the western branch of Lake Keuka, by Basswood Creek. Others have speculated that Red Jacket's birth place was Geneva, Canoga, Ganundewah, or Canandaigua Lake. A stone monument identifies the spot where Ahweyneyonh is believed to be buried.
She was the mother of Sagoyewatha (abt 1758-1830), historically known as 'Red Jacket', who was Chief of the Seneca Wolf Clan. His name meant 'He keeps them awake', a reference to his oratorical skills. Otetiani, which means 'Always Ready', was his original birth name. His father may have been a Cayuga. The name 'Red Jacket' was given to him by the British soldiers who had given him a heavily embroidered red coat when he fought with the British against the colonies.
Ahweyneyonh and her husband lived in a cabin on Lake Keuka along Basswood Creek near Branchport. According to Red Jacket himself as well as pioneer Asa Brown, who lived with the family, he was born near the sandbar on the the western branch of Lake Keuka, by Basswood Creek. Others have speculated that Red Jacket's birth place was Geneva, Canoga, Ganundewah, or Canandaigua Lake. A stone monument identifies the spot where Ahweyneyonh is believed to be buried.
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[Seneca Nation Wolf Clan]
"Beneath this monument lie the mortal remains of the mother of Sacoyewatha-Red Jacket, Orator and leader of the Seneca Indians whose domain once included the region about Keuka Lake
With his father and mother Red Jacket spent his boyhood near this spot and here the family cabin stood 1752
This, the actual site of the home of Red Jacket's mother, by this monument is dedicated to her memory by the heirs of Dr. J. C. Wightman, to which her burial place was disclosed by Asa Brown, a white man, adopted by the Jacket family"
[Erected 1900 under the auspices of the New York State Archaeological Association]
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