Yoel Gebrehiwet Chief Red Bullet Speech

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Yoel Gebrehiwet Chief Red Jacket was a Native American chief of the Seneca Tribe. He often was a spokesperson for his people, encouraging the white people to accept Native Americans as worthy and equal. In 1805, Red Jacket gave the speech “Rejecting a Change of Religion” in Buffalo, New York. He spoke to a group of white missionaries who wanted to convert and baptize his people as Christians. Chief Red Jacket tactfully rejected this offer and persuaded the missionaries to see his people as equals through tone, word choice, and reasoning to decline the offer of switching religions. In Red Jacket’s speech he changes his tone multiple times throughout the speech. An example of this is when he was respecting the white people then suddenly