CORNPLANTER

c.1740–1836, chief of the Seneca. The son of a Native American mother and a white father, he acquired great influence among the Seneca and in the American Revolution led war parties for the British against the colonial forces, particularly against Gen. John Sullivan in New York. He later favored friendship with the whites and signed the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784). He was given a grant of land on the Allegheny River, where he lived to a very old age. His views were opposed by the energetic Red Jacket but supported by Handsome Lake (Cornplanter's half brother).

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books on: Cornplanter  - 117 results

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The Encyclopedia of North American Indians - Vol. 3
Includes: Cheyenne - Delaware
Book by D. L. Birchfield; Marshall Cavendish, 1997
Subjects: Indians Of North America--Encyclopedias
...fmty-five. SEE ALSO: Hiawatha, Ojihwc. CORNPLANTER (1735-1836) Cornplanter (Seneca) was a major Iroquois leader of the...higgest Sellers of liquor to the Senecas. Cornplanter was raised hy his Seneca mother. As an ally...
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Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as Told to Benjamin Williams
Book by Governor Blacksnake, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas S. Abler; University of Nebraska Press, 2005
Subjects: Blacksnake--Governor--Ca. 1753-1859, Indians Of North America--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal Narratives, Seneca Indians--Biography, Seneca Indians--History
...mentioned a conexionship between Brant and Cornplanter. This is a fictive kin relationship...blood relationship. Brant addresses Cornplanter using a term Williams has translated as nephew. If Cornplanter had been a generation younger than...
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Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America
Book by Alfred A. Cave; University of Nebraska Press, 2005
Subjects: Indians Of North America--East (U.S.)--Religion, Indians Of North America--East (U.S.)--Rites And Ceremonies, Prophets--United States
Cornplanter and the Quakers Not all Iroquois agreed...Pennsylvania, followed their chief, Cornplanter, in developing a mixed economy thatblendedtraditional...been granted as a private holdingto Cornplanter bythe state of Pennsylvania. Located...
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Iroquois Journey: An Anthropologist Remembers
Book by William N. Fenton, Jack Campisi, William A. Starna; University of Nebraska Press, 2007
Subjects: Anthropologists--New York (State)--Biography, Fenton, William Nelson--1908-, Indianists--New York (State)--Biography, Iroquoian Indians--New York (State)--Antiquities, New York (State)--Antiquities
...Place Names and Related Activities of the Cornplanter Senecas, I: State Line to Cornplanter Grant: Northern Approaches. Pennsylvania...Place Names and Related Activities of the Cornplanter Senecas, II: Cornplanter Grant: The Place...
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Betty Zane
Book by Zane Grey, Louis F. Grant; Grosset & Dunlap, 1903
Subjects: Zane, Elizabeth--1759?-1847?--Fiction
...or, as he was more commonly called, Cornplanter, was originally a Seneca chief, but...white man coursed through the veins of Cornplanter. The tribe he led was originally ruled...the queen fell in love with him, and Cornplanter was their son." Cornplanter lived...
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journal articles on: Cornplanter  - 11 results

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On the Road to Canandaigua: the Treaty of 1794
Journal article by Jack Campisi, William A. Starna; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 19, 1995
Subjects: Indians Of Central America--Periodicals
...Seneca sachem, "spoke roughly to him Cornplanter -- and told him he should consider...his, to conduct the treaty." 102 Cornplanter complained that he had taken "a great...of the treaty might be discounted if Cornplanter were not a signatory. Arguing that...
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Lest We Forget ... Remembering through the Song of the Resilient Spirit
Journal article by Nicholle Dragone; Studies in the Humanities, Vol. 33, 2006
Subjects: Brant, Molly--Criticism and interpretation, Jogues, Isaac--Criticism and interpretation, Jogues, Isaac--Works, Kenny, Maurice--Criticism and interpretation, Kenny, Maurice--Works, Lyric poetry--Social aspects, Native Americans--Works, Oral tradition--Evaluation, Resilience (Personality trait)--Influence
...People. As Seneca storyteller Jesse J. Cornplanter tells his readers, the Little People...extent, the caretakers of human beings. Cornplanter tells of one young Iroquois boy, who...ceremony of the Dark Dance (as told by Cornplanter 32-43). It is with the Little People...
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May Games and Noble Savages: The Native American in Early Celebrations of the Tammany Society
Journal article by Martin W. Walsh; Folklore, Vol. 108, 1997
Subjects: May Day--History, Native Americans--History
...American delegations. In 1786 Chief Cornplanter and five other Seneca Iroquois from...to the Tammany May Day celebrations. Cornplanter delivered an oration in which he apologised...translation. As the drinking had commenced, Cornplanter requested that an offering be made to...
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Burial Ceremonialism at Sugar Run Mound (36wa359), a Hopewellian Squawkie Hill Phase Site, Warren County, Pennsylvania
Journal article by Mark A. McConaughy; Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, MCJA, Vol. 36, 2011
...Squawkie Hill phase Sugar Run Mound. The Cornplanter Tract and Allegany Reservation, occupied...the current Allegheny Reservoir. The Cornplanter Tract was submerged under the Allegheny...Irvine 2, Irvine 3, possibly Irvine 5, Cornplanter Mound Group) as well as some Middle...
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Oeuvre de Chair: la Petite Histoire Du Pic Mangeur D'hommes
Journal article by Marie-Laure Pilette; Anthropologica, Vol. 35, 1993
Subjects: Culture, Legends, Native peoples
...1889, 1893, 1922), H.M. Converse (1908), J.J. Cornplanter (1938), H. Hale (1883, 1888) et les etudes aux preoccupations...C. Parker. Bulletin 125. Albany: New York Museum. Cornplanter, J.J. 1938 Legends of the Longhouse. New York: J...
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magazine articles on: Cornplanter  - 2 results

 
 
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Tradition Comes to Light in a 20th-century Space
Magazine article by Michael J. Gill; Humanities, Vol. 19, May/Jun 1998
Subjects: Carnegie Museum of Natural History-Pittsburgh PA, Historic artifacts, Museum exhibits, Native Americans
...One display tells the story of Chief Cornplanter of the Senecas, who had a land grant...tells how it came about. "In 1798 Cornplanter had invited the Quakers to open a school...reconstructed a very large model of Cornplanter s grant focusing on the village. We...
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THE Power Broker Who Came Home
Magazine article by Bill Kauffman; The American Enterprise, Vol. 10, November 1999
Subjects: Alexander, New York--Personalities, Conable, Barber B.--Conduct of life, Ex-public officers--Homes and haunts
...plastered not with yellowing photos of forgettable pols but with Indian artifacts: tomahawks and images of Red Jacket, Cornplanter, Handsome Lake--the natural leaders of the previous inhabitants of these parts. "Those arrowheads on that plaque my...


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encyclopedia articles on: Cornplanter  - 3 results

 
 
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Cornplanter
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CORNPLANTER c.1740 1836, chief of the Seneca. The son of a Native American mother and a white father, he acquired great influence among...
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Iroquois Confederacy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...responsible for winning over the Oneida, who rallied to the side of the colonists after remaining neutral for two years. Cornplanter , Red Jacket , and Joseph Brant (who was educated by Sir William Johnson) led the Iroquois who remained loyal to the British...
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Handsome Lake
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HANDSOME LAKE 1735? 1815, Seneca religious prophet; half brother of Cornplanter . After a long illness he had a vision (c.1800) and began to preach new religious beliefs. His moral teachings showed a similarity...


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