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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: June 23, 2014
Caption: Chief Red Pole's Grave marker
Additional Description: Mio-Qua-Coo-Na_Caw
or Red Pole
The renewal of the Indian wars after the Revolution placed Pittsburgh in imminent danger. Red Pole, principal village chief of the Shawnee was one of the signers of the Treaty of Greenville on August 3, 1795, which brought lasting peace to the frontier. In 1796 after the treay took effect; Red Pole and his brother Blue Jacket were in Pittsburgh at Christmas, held there by the rivers closed by ice. Red Pole was taken sick, and in spite of the faithful ministrations of Dr. Nathaniel Bedford and doctors Carmichael and Wallace, the Chief died on January 28, 1797. He was buried with great ceremony beneath an older headstone at the request of Washington's Secretary of War, James McHenry.
Submitted: June 23, 2014, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p276879
File Size: 2.100 Megabytes

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