Native American Friends of Founding Fathers Were Masons?

http://www.mastermason.com/bridgeportlodge181/OHMSHT02p1.HTM

Looking into the history of Masons in my home town, I came across this and thought it was worth sharing. The entire page is a fascinating take on American history.

“As claimed by that eminent Masonic scholar, the late M..·. W.·. Brother H. P. H. Bromwell, and other reliable authorities there are many evidences of their knowledge of Masonic signs and symbolism. In this connection, nearly a half century since, the writer became acquainted with a large, fine-looking, intelligent Cherokee Indian Mason, thoroughly up in the work, and although he was himself made a Mason in an American lodge, yet he claimed that there was a knowledge of Masonic mysteries in some of the Indian tribes. That Indians become enthusiastic Masons when initiated in American lodges is doubtless true also, but a few years since the Most Worshipful Grand Master of Masons in Indian Territory, M.·. W.·. Brother Silas B. Armstrong, was a Wyandot Indian of prominence in their tribal affairs and the United States Government, and his administration of the Masonic affairs in that Grand jurisdiction was equal to that of any of his predecessors.

The eloquent Red Jacket, Chief of the Senecas and also Chief of the Six Nations, possessed a medal presented to him by General Washington, by whom he was greatly esteemed and with whom a warm personal friendship long existed. The grandnephew of Red Jacket, to whom the medal descended, Do-ne-ho-ga-wa, a full-blooded Seneca and also Chief of the Six Nations, was an enthusiastic Freemason; he served with distinction in the United States Army from 1861 to 1865 and possibly retained his Army connection afterwards, as he was assigned to the staff of General Grant and was promoted to the rank of a general officer and was known in the army by his anglicized name of General Ely S. Parker.”