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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.
The Cornplanter Tract or Cornplanter Indian Reservation is a plot of land in Warren County, Pennsylvania that was administered by the Seneca tribe. The tract consisted of 1,500 acres (610 ha) along the Allegheny River .
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 Cattaraugus ...
The reservation was defined adjacent to the Cornplanter Tract, a 1500-acre perpetual land grant given to Seneca chief Cornplanter and his descendants that extended into Pennsylvania. The Cornplanter Tract constituted the only reserved native lands in the state of Pennsylvania.
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 Seneca name was Hayonhwonhish (He Strokes the Rushes [2]).
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 ]
A history of food. Native American food is not mainstream for a variety of reasons. Sherman pointed to the idea of "manifest destiny," or the 19th-century belief that the U.S. was "destined" by ...
[3] Name on the Register Image Date listed [4] Location City or town Description 1: Cornplanter Grant: May 14, 2018 (Allegheny Reservoir [5: Elk Township: Indian reservation; mostly submerged by the creation of the reservoir [6]