Red Shoes (Muskogean chief)
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Red Shoes (c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".-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]Template:Rp but his influence extended well into modern Mississippi.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Red Shoes was the son of a Koasati leader also known as Red Shoes and his wife Sehoy.[3]Template:Rp Since lineage among the Muscogee Confederacy was traced matrilineally, Red Shoes, like his mother, was part of the Wind Clan.[2]Template:Rp His parents also had a daughter together, who would have been his full sister.[3]Template:Rp His half-sister, Sehoy Marchand, daughter of Jean Baptiste Louis DeCourtel Marchand[4]Template:Rp was first married to Angus or August McPherson, with whom she had two children, Sehoy McPherson (Sehoy III) and Malcolm McPherson.[2]Template:Rp She later married Lachlan McGillivray and had three more children, Alexander, Sophia, and Jeanette McGillivray.[5]Template:Rp
When his mother died around 1730, Red Shoes' father remarried and had another son who he also named Red Shoes.[3]Template:Rp 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]Template:Rp[3]Template:Rp 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]Template:Rp
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