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Blue Jacket of the Shawnee

The dignity in your portrait work hooks me good, Atehequa. Thx.

Thank you, The Mingo

Wayapiersenwah or Blue Jacket, Shawnee Chief.
Some say his European name was Marmaduke Van Swerigin, Dutch and captured as a teenager by the Shawnee. Whatever his birth, Wayapiersenwah was a exceptional warrior and helped lead a force of old northwest native tribes to defeat two American armies sent by the newly established United States into Indian territory.

I do not know what he looked like, but imagined him as such in my painting.

dignity was the word that cross my mind while seeing your painting, Atehequa,... and I saw it later also in mingo´s post... hermoso retrato!!!!! Can you tell us also something about your name here?