Chief Red Shoes
Source: Mississippi as a province, territory and state
with biographical notices of eminent citizens
By J. F. H. Clairborne
Volume I
1880
with biographical notices of eminent citizens
By J. F. H. Clairborne
Volume I
1880
1745. Red Shoes belonged to the clan of the Six-town Choctaws, and resided near where Garlandsville, in Jasper County, Mississippi, now stands. He was a very audacious, troublesome fellow, and a great rascal. After bleeding the gallant Marquis very freely, and perceiving that his stock of printed stuffs and strands, blankets and beads, tomahawks, knives and vermillion, powder and lead, sugar, rum and tobacco was exhausted, and not replenished as fast as he expected, the long-headed chief regarded him as a sham and again went over to the English. He carried with him the great Mingo of the Alabamas, members of the Creek and Muscogee confederacy, who had generally been friends of the French. Vaudreuil visited Mobile, when twelve hundred Choctaws met him, received their annual presents and renewed pledges of friendship. Red Shoes refused to attend, and with his own hand tomahawked a French officer, Chevalier de Verbois, and two French traders, who chanced to arrive in his village.