Red Shoes (Muskogean chief)

Red Shoes (c. 1720-1783) 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,^: 185 but his influence extended well into modern Mississippi.

Red Shoes was the son of a Koasati leader also known as Red Shoes and his wife Sehoy.^: 36 Since lineage among the Muscogee Confederacy was traced matrilineally, Red Shoes, like his mother, was part of the Wind Clan.^{: 183–186} His parents also had a daughter together, who would have been his full sister.^: 36 His half-sister, Sehoy Marchand, daughter of Jean Baptiste Louis DeCourtel Marchand^: 234 was first married to Angus or August McPherson, with whom she had two children, Sehoy McPherson (Sehoy III) and Malcolm McPherson.^{: 190–191} She later married Lachlan McGillivray and had three more children, Alexander, Sophia, and Jeanette McGillivray.^: 50–51

When his mother died around 1730, Red Shoes' father remarried and had another son who he also named Red Shoes.^: 36 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.^{: 185 : 281} 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.^: 185