. Bulletin. Ethnology. aeo KED IRON BAND—BED JACKET [b. a. e. while smallpox was raging among the in- mates, and the soldiers killed Red Horn and 172 others. The number of women and children among these was later a sub- ject of controversy. See Dunn, Massa- cres of the Mountains, 509-42, 1886. Bed Iron Band. A former Sisseton Sioux band, named from its chief, Mazahsha, residing at the mouth of Lac qui Parle r., Minn. They were friendly in the out- break of 1862, and after the massacre pre- vented the escape of Little Crow with 276 captives into the far N. W. This band was a part of the so-call
. Bulletin. Ethnology. aeo KED IRON BAND—BED JACKET [b. a. e. while smallpox was raging among the in- mates, and the soldiers killed Red Horn and 172 others. The number of women and children among these was later a sub- ject of controversy. See Dunn, Massa- cres of the Mountains, 509-42, 1886. Bed Iron Band. A former Sisseton Sioux band, named from its chief, Mazahsha, residing at the mouth of Lac qui Parle r., Minn. They were friendly in the out- break of 1862, and after the massacre pre- vented the escape of Little Crow with 276 captives into the far N. W. This band was a part of the so-called Traverse des Sioux band. (d. r. ) Red Jacket. A noted Seneca orator and chief of the "merit" class (see Chiefs) of the Wolf clan, born about 1756, prob- ably at Canoga, in Seneca co., N. Y., where a monument commemorates his. RED JACKET birth; died on the former "Buffalo res- ervation" of the Seneca, on lands now within the limits of Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1830. In civil life his Indian name was Otetiani, probably meaning 'pre- pared' or 'ready'. On his elevation to a chiefship, he received the name 'Sha- goie^wiitha' (commonly spelledSa-go-ye- wat-ha), signifying literally 'he them causes to be awake,' and, as a name, ' he who causes them to be awake,' a desig- nation having no reference to his reputed ability as an effective speaker, although this seems to be the popular inference. Being a member of the Wolf clan of the Seneca, the Indian names received by Red Jacket belonged, according to cus- tom, exclusively to this im})ortant clan. And, institutionally, clan names were in large measure designations descriptive of some distinctive feature, attitude, habit, or other phenomenon characteristic of the clan tutelary. So it being one of the marked habits of the wolf to disturb or awaken people at night by howling or by other means, there naturally would be a personal name belonging to the Wolf clan which eml)odied tliis lupine trait and which in this c
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