Red Pole (Shawnee)

Red Pole (Muscquaconocah)^[1] was an 18th-century Shawnee leader.

Red Pole
Muscquaconocah
Shawnee leader
Personal details
Relations	Blue Jacket

He is believed to be a brother of Blue Jacket. He led a delegation to negotiations for the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, which ended the Northwest Indian War,^[2] and was a signatory.^[3] His name was transcribed as Misquacoonacaw on the treaty.

Red Pole accompanied Blue Jacket to Philadelphia in November 1798, and met with President George Washington.^[4] His likeness, along with Blue Jacket, was represented as a wax figure by Charles Willson Peale at his Philadelphia Museum.^[5]

The United States erected a headstone for Red Pole in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.^[6]