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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Cornplanter (c. 1750–1836) (Gaiänt'wakê or John Abeel), Seneca war-chief, ancestor of all others with the name Edward Cornplanter (1856–1918) (So-son-do-wa), Seneca chief and religious leader Carrie Cornplanter (1887–1918) (Teton), Seneca artist, daughter of Edward
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 ...
Jesse Cornplanter was born in 1889 to Seneca parents Nancy Jack and Edward Cornplanter on the Cattaraugus Reservation in New York.His mother was of the Snipe Clan of the Tonawanda and the matrilineal traditions of the tribe passed the Snipe Clan designation to the children.
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.
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