Red Shoes (Muskogean chief)
Red Shoes (c. 1720 - 1783)[1] was a Muskogean leader of the Tuskegee people in the 18th century. He primarily lived in modern Alabama near Tuskegee at the forks of the Alabama River,[2]: 185 but his influence extended well into modern Mississippi.[citation needed]
Red Shoes was the son of a Koasati leader also known as Red Shoes and his wife Sehoy.[3]: 36 Since lineage among the Muscogee Confederacy was traced matrilineally, Red Shoes, like his mother, was part of the Wind Clan.[2]: 183–186 His parents also had a daughter together, who would have been his full sister.[3]: 36 His half-sister, Sehoy Marchand, daughter of Jean Baptiste Louis DeCourtel Marchand[4]: 234 was first married to Angus or August McPherson, with whom she had two children, Sehoy McPherson (Sehoy III) and Malcolm McPherson.[2]: 190–191 She later married Lachlan McGillivray and had three more children, Alexander, Sophia, and Jeanette McGillivray.[5]: 50–51
When his mother died around 1730, Red Shoes' father remarried and had another son who he also named Red Shoes.[3]: 36 Alexander McGillivray wrote a letter in 1788, describing the relationship in Creek terms, he called this second son named Red Shoes a "brother to one of my uncles", indicating that they were not of the same matrilineage or clan.[2]: 185 [3]: 281 Red Shoes died about 1783, as his death was reported by his nephew Alexander in a letter to Governor O'Neill. Written on January 3, 1784, McGillivray stated that his uncle was killed while trying to recover some stolen horses.[2]: 185
References[edit]
- ^ "Ancestry". Wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
- ^ a b c d e Wright, Amos J. (2007). The McGillivray and McIntosh Traders on the Old Southwest Frontier, 1716-1815 (Second ed.). Montgomery, Alabama: NewSouth Books. ISBN 978-1-60306-014-1.
- ^ a b c d Waselkov, Gregory A. (2006). A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-5573-9.
- ^ Langley, Linda (Spring 2005). "The Tribal Identity of Alexander McGillivray: A Review of the Historical and Ethnographic Data". Louisiana History. 46 (2). Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana Historical Association: 231–239. ISSN 0024-6816. JSTOR 4234109. OCLC 5544075024. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ Wells, Mary Ann (1998). Searching for Red Eagle. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-61703-344-5.
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