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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; Carrie Cornplanter; Edward Cornplanter; Jesse Cornplanter; John Fremantle, 4th Baron Cottesloe; John Fremantle, 5th Baron Cottesloe; Thomas Fremantle, 2nd Baron Cottesloe; Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe; Edward F. Cox; Lord Anthony Crichton-Stuart; John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute; John Schuyler Crosby; Victor ...
In later age, Cornplanter was granted a large plot of land in Pennsylvania, an area that was flooded following construction of the Kinzua Dam in the mid-20th century. His descendants (among them Edward Cornplanter and Jesse Cornplanter) were influential members of the Seneca Nation.
They were overruled by Sayenqueraghta, Cornplanter and the Delaware who selected a position on the north side of the Chemung River for an ambush. [ 1 ] The Rangers and their native allies hastily constructed a horseshoe-shaped camouflaged breastwork of logs about 150 feet (46 m) up the southeast spur of the hill, within musket range of the path.
Carrie Cornplanter (1887–1918) was a Native American artist of the Seneca tribe. 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 ]
Jesse Cornplanter was a descendant of the 18th-century Seneca war chief and diplomat Cornplanter [3] The Anglo-American musical theater conductor John Joseph Braham, Sr. composed the musical score for Hiawatha. Braham would later compose the score for the 1913 Edward S. Curtis film, In the Land of the Head Hunters. [4]