Red Pole "Mio-Qua-Goo-Na-Gaw" Opessa

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Red Pole "Mio-Qua-Goo-Na-Gaw" Opessa

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Pennsylvania, United States
Death: January 28, 1798 (57-58)
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
Place of Burial: Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Lawaquaqua Wawwaythi Lawaquaqua Pride Opessa and Sister of Moluntha
Brother of Watmeme "Pekowi" Blackfish
Half brother of Lawagqua Opessa; Blue Jacket; Wabete-Elk Opessa; Sarah Opessa and Weyapiersenwha Opessa

Managed by: Lloyd Alfred Doss, Jr.
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About Red Pole "Mio-Qua-Goo-Na-Gaw" Opessa

Half brother of Bluejacket according to Shawnee Heritage II, Don Greene

https://books.google.com/books?id=svkmCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA347&lpg=PA347&d...

http://www.shawnee-bluejacket.com/blue-jacket.html

1796 Chief Blue Jacket and his brother or half-brother, Red Pole, traveld east to Philadelphia where they met with President Washington Dec. 2, 1796. A life-size wax sculpture of the two men was made and stood in the Charles Wilson Peale Museum until they were later destroyed in a fire. Somewhere the writer read, or heard, an unconfirmed story that President Washington once bowed as he passed the sculpture. Concluding their visit to Philadelphia where they were "wined and dined," enroute home Red Pole (Mio-Qua-Goo-Na-Gaw) became sick and died of pneumonia at Pittsburgh January 28, 1798. He was buried there with full military honors. (See "Native Americans at the Greene Ville Peace Treaty, 1795" by the the knowledgeable historian, Mrs. Toni Seiler, curator of the Garst Museum at Greenville, Ohio.

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Red Pole "Mio-Qua-Goo-Na-Gaw" Opessa's Timeline

1740
1740
Pennsylvania, United States
1798
January 28, 1798
Age 58
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
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Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States