Red Jacket Park

Named for Sagoyewatha, whose 1805 speech on religious freedom is among the defining texts of North American oratory.

Yates County

Red Jacket, known in the Seneca language as Sagoyewatha — ‘He Keeps Them Awake’ — represented the Seneca Nation at the Treaty of Canandaigua in 1794 and delivered the 1805 speech ‘Religion for the White Man and the Red,’ recognized as one of the defining texts of North American oratory. President George Washington presented him with a silver peace medal in 1792; Red Jacket wore it in every portrait painted of him. That medal now sits in the Buffalo History Museum. His portrait was the first of a Native American exhibited at the National Academy of Design. His mother lived near Branchport on the west arm of Keuka Lake. Indian Pines, the Seneca settlement site where the park sits, provides public waterfront access year-round.

Contact Info

309 Lake Street, Penn Yan, New York, US, 14527

(315) 536-3015

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Business Category

Outdoor
Culture & Heritage

Lake

Keuka Lake

Region

Finger Lakes Region

Pass

Finger Lakes Heritage Pass
Finger Lakes Outdoor Pass

Town

Penn Yan