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“Inchu Chunna came to me [Karl / Old Shatterhand], and said, ‘This paleface was not afraid to commit any kind of villainy, but when it was about his skin, he was crying like a child.’ ‘Yes,’ I answered, ‘but you must remember that there are evil and good people in all skin colours.’ ‘You misunderstand me,’ said the chief. ‘I don’t want to insult you. No peoples are better or worse than the others. I agree with you. […]’” (Karl May – “Winnetou 1”)

108 years ago the author Karl May sat at exactly this spot. He visited this grave of Seneca Indian chief Sagoyewatha or Red Jacket at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo in 1908, after he had written the famous novels about his fictional identity Old Shatterhand and his fictional Apache chief friend Winnetou.