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Edward Cornplanter. Edward Cornplanter or So-son-do-wa (1856–1918) was a chief of the Seneca people of the Iroquois Nation (Haudenosaunee) and a leading exponent of the Code of Handsome Lake (Gai'wiio, also known as the Longhouse Religion). Cornplanter, the son of Moses and Sarah (Phillips) Cornplanter, was born in November 1856 on the Seneca ...
Cornplanter was born about 1752 at Canawaugus (now in the Town of Caledonia) on the Genesee River in present-day New York State.He was the son of a Seneca woman, Gah-hon-no-neh (She Who Goes to the River), and a Dutch trader, Johannes "John" Abeel II.
Father Edward Cornplanter (Seneca name Sosondowah) Mother Nancy Jack Jesse J. Cornplanter (September 16, 1889 – March 18, 1957) was an actor, artist, author, craftsman, Seneca Faithkeeper and decorated veteran of World War I. [ 1 ] The last male descendant of Cornplanter , an important 18th-century Haudenosaunee leader and war chief, his ...
Cornplanter promptly opened up his plot to native settlement, and within two years, 400 Seneca were living on the tract. [2] In 1918, most of Cornplanter's descendants were killed in the 1918 flu pandemic , [ 3 ] and Jesse Cornplanter , the last direct male heir, died in 1957 without having children, [ 4 ] with the land in the tract divided ...
Little is recorded of Cornplanter's life save that she was the elder sister of Jesse Cornplanter, had a sister named Anna, and had children of her own, and that her native name was "dédon". [1] The three were descendants of Chief Cornplanter and the daughters of Edward Cornplanter. Carrie's paintings are among the earliest known by an American ...
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