Red Bullet Speech Analysis

Sagoyewatha, known as Red Jacket, a native American that was a critical mediator and a defender of the native religion. A Boston missionary society in 1805 wanting to convert the natives to Christianity but Red Jacket disagree and defended the native religion. Although the Boston missionary society wanted to convert the Native Americans to Christianity and ditch their own religion, Red Jacket didn’t agree with the white people to Christianize the native American, therefore we shall not proselytize the natives with Christianity and leave them with their already great religion.
In the beginning of his speech, Red Jacket approaches the Boston missionary with a friendly and welcoming tone. In every paragraph, he uses the word, “brother”, to …show more content…
He claims in paragraph 10, “you say you have not come to get our land or our money, but to enlighten our minds. I... and saw you collecting money from the meeting, I cannot tell what the money was intended for.” Red Jacket and his people were upset with the action of the arriving colonists in which they lost their beliefs and trust. A historical context in paragraph 4 Red Jacket said was “they told us they fled from their own country for fear of wicked men, …to enjoy their religion. They asked for a small seat; we took pity on them, granted their request, and they sat down amongst us; we gave them corn and meat; they gave us poison in return. This caused frustration and irritation with the natives; thus the native did not want any part of the Christian religion. He uses pathos to appeal to their emotion of this betrayal of the whites and making claim in paragraph 4 and 9 about what occurred. As expressed, Red Jacket uses pathos in his speech to express the native feeling towards this action and to place guilt on the arrived colonist that betrayed their trust.
To sum up, Red Jacket uses a countless number of rhetorical strategies to appoint his speech to the Boston missionary society. He gives many examples of what the whites