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	White Dove's Native American Indian Site Cornplanter (Kaiiontwa'koKaiiontwa'ko<sup><font ...
		Cornplanter was second in command of the Indian fighters at the Battle of Wyoming in June 1778.
		Cornplanter subsequently became a faithful ally of the new United States and was probably influential in persuading George Washington to adopt treaty making as the preferred method of dealing with Indian tribes while urging fair and honest treatment of the Indians generally.
		Cornplanter died on February 18, 1836, and was buried at the Cornplanter Grant.
	users.multipro.com /whitedove/encyclopedia/cornplanter-kaiiontwa-kon-by-what-one-plants-appr-1740-1836.html (996 words)

	Canku Ota - February 12, 2000 - Cornplanter
		Cornplanter had three villages, and the largest consisted of nearly 80 lodges in Mercer County.
		Cornplanter's other two villages were at Big Bend at the Shenango River, and at Pine Swamp in Jackson Township.
		This event took place sometime around 1822-1823 when relations with Cornplanter's people had become very tense because their land continued to be taken from them according to the ongoing rewriting of the treaties and legal documents.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues00/Co02122000/CO_02122000_cornplanter.htm (1543 words)

	Cornplanter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cornplanter and Mohawk chief Joseph Brant joined forces with Loyalist Lt. Colonel John Butler and his rangers at the Battle of Wyoming Valley in 1778 (which came to be known as the Wyoming Valley Massacre.
		Cornplanter was half-brother to Handsome Lake and uncle to Governor Blacksnake.
		Cornplanter State Forest in Forest County, Pennsylvania is named for him and is comprised of 1,256 acres of land.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cornplanter (1096 words)

	ONEOFMANYFEATHERSPM
		Cornplanter distinguished himself as a heroic war chief during the Revolution, often engaged in battles with forces led by George Washington, for whom Cornplanter reportedly had great respect.
		Chief Cornplanter and the Senecas held a domain that stretched from present-day Buffalo to Pittsburgh, and from Chautauqua Lake to Cleveland.
		Cornplanter, the leader of the Seneca Nation, died in 1836 at the age of approximately 100.
	groups.msn.com /ONEOFMANYFEATHERSPM/chiefcornplanter.msnw (1028 words)

	RMSC - Louis Henry Morgan Website - Johnson Family Tree
		Cornplanter believed that it would be foolish to take up arms again with the Americans, and he worked toward keeping the Senecas out of the foray.
		By 1791, Cornplanter was gaining influence with some of the leaders at Buffalo Creek and, as was tradition with his nation, he suggested that the women should be consulted as to whether they should go to war with the Shawnees against the United States.
		Cornplanter chose the path of limited assimilation, believing that the Senecas needed to educate themselves in the ways of white society in order to survive it.
	www.rmsc.org /museum/exhibits/online/lhm/cornplanter.htm (619 words)

	Cornplanter - Encyclopedia.com
		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.
		Cornplanter (1732-1836) had a Seneca mother, but his father was a white...
		Cornplanter is a name derived from the Seneca Indians, who once...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Cornplan.html (1010 words)

	Handsome Lake
		His nephew Blacksnake and half-brother Cornplanter were with him during this time and believed in the power of his visions and their revelations.
		Cornplanter (c.1736-1836) was a great war captain of the Seneca nation, a member of the Iroquois Confederacy.
		Cornplanter was reputed to be about a hundred years old at the time of his death.
	www.roebuckclasses.com /201/conquest/handsomelake.htm (899 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Cornplanter
		During the Indian wars in Ohio and Indiana right after the Revolution, Cornplanter was able to keep the Senecas neutral and tried to negotiate with the Shawnees on behalf of the US.
		In gratitude for his assistance, Cornplanter was given a grant of land by Pennsylvania along the western bank of the Allegheny River to him and his heirs "forever".
		Cornplanter State Forest in Forest County, Pennsylvania is named for him.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Cornplanter (576 words)

	Pennsylvania People. Cornplanter. Level 1
		Cornplanter was a chief of the Seneca Tribe.
		Cornplanter knew that if his people tried to stop the settlers they would all be killed.
		The Cornplanter Forest District is 1,256 acres of land.
	www.cbsd.org /pennsylvaniapeople/level1_biographies/Biographies_Level_1/cornplanter_level_1.htm (735 words)

	Chief Cornplanter
		It was a grant of land made in 1791 to Cornplanter, a chief of the Seneca Nation, and to his heirs by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
		Cornplanter was the child of a temporary union, common then between whites and Indians.
		Cornplanter was reared as an Indian and an Indian he remained.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/cornplanter/page1.asp?secid=31 (502 words)

	White Dove's Native American Indian Site Handsome Lake (Sganyadia:yo) (1735-1815)
		In July 1777 he and his half brother Cornplanter attended a great war council of the Iroquois Confederacy with the British at Oswego Though the brothers initially argued for Seneca neutrality, they later fought alongside the British forces against the revolutionaries.
		In 1780 Cornplanter and his followers moved to the Allegheny Valley; for the next decade, he traveled extensively among his people, counseling peace with the thirteen states, and went to Albany and Philadelphia to meet with the new state and federal governments.
		On June 15, 1799, Cornplanter, summoned urgently to his house, was told that his brother was dying.
	users.multipro.com /whitedove/encyclopedia/handsome-lake-sganyadia-yo-1735-1815.html (1016 words)

	Corn Planter
		Chief Cornplanter, or "the corn planter" to the Senecas, was born in the little town of Conewaugus on the Genessee River in New York state.
		Cornplanter was a half breed, the son of a white man and an Indian royaneh, a memeber of a Seneca noble family and a hereditary matron of the Wolf clan.
		Cornplanter was often referred to as one of the most valiant warriors of his tribe, of superior sagacity and eloquence.
	www.indigenouspeople.net /cornplnt.htm (607 words)

	Zane Grey : Betty Zane : Chapter IX.
		Yantwaia, or, as he was more commonly called, Cornplanter, was originally a Seneca chief, but when the five war tribes consolidated, forming the historical "Five Nations," he became their leader.
		It was during this period of Cornplanter's activity against the whites that Isaac Zane had the misfortune to fall into the great chief's power.
		Cornplanter saw this and he felt that on the eve of important marches he dared not sacrifice one of his braves for any reason, much less a worthless pale face; and yet to let the prisoner go galled the haughty spirit of the Seneca chief.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid./bookid.1303/sec.11 (4580 words)

	Warren County Chamber of Business & Industry: Northwestern PA's Business Relocation and Economic Development ...
		Cornplanter realized the value of aligning with the newcomers to maintain peace for his people.
		The Cornplanter Grant was the last of the occupied Indian lands in the state.
		Chief Cornplanter was known by Indians and non-Indians alike for his intelligence and abilities as a spokesperson.
	www.warrenpachamber.com /Life_Heritage.php (797 words)

	LISA WRAY BOOK OF PATTERNS - TWIRL
		Cornplanter was a great war captain of the Seneca nation, a member of the Iroquois Confederacy.
		In gratitude for his assistance in keeping the Seneca neutral during the Indian wars in Ohio, Cornplanter was given a grant of land on the western bank of the Allegheny River, where he lived to a very old age.
		In 1789 the recommendation was made that Chief Cornplanter be given a grant of 1500 acres of land in western Pennsylvania.
	www.lisawray.com /PATTERNPAGES/twirl.html (593 words)

	Chief Cornplanter, Page 3
		Cornplanter, however, was successful in keeping the Iroquois from joining the rebels.
		Cornplanter strongly opposed liquor and he was supported in this by his half-brother Handsome Lake, who in 1799 became a religious reformer and a prophet to the Iroquois people.
		Residence became largely seasonal and in late 1964 the last inhabitant left, permitting Kinzua Dam to be closed and the reservoir to be flooded.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/cornplanter/page3.asp?secid=31 (582 words)

	Outline of Chapters, long version
		Examines the origins of the Quaker mission to the Allegany Senecas with emphasis on Cornplanter's motives for soliciting assistance.
		Notes that Cornplanter's strategy was to use the Quakers as advocates in the halls of state and national power in Philadelphia (the capital of both Pennsylvania and the United States), as buffers against those elements of European-American society inclined to prey upon Indians, and as deterrents to scheming land speculators.
		Cornplanter feels the need to reassure Simmons of his continued welcome, but is reluctant to do so publicly.
	www.swatzler.com /outlinelong.html (3417 words)

	The Bear Clan - Cornplanter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cornplanter did not become a Christian, but he welcomed Quakers and other teachers of agricultural living.
		Refugee Senecas resided in Cornplanter's principal town of Jenuchshadego, meaning "Burnt House." Jenuchshadego was located on the Allegheny River.
		Jesse Cornplanter, the artist, was a descendant of the great Seneca chief.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/Cornplanter.html (249 words)

	The Mountain Laurel Review - Cornplanter's Wager
		He was a frequent visitor that year to Cornplanter’s town which was located in present day Corydon Township, probably on the site of the now-submerged town of Corydon.
		Cornplanter told him that no Indian of the Six Nations had done it or any white man who he knew.
		Tome told Cornplanter about capturing elk along the Susquehanna River, but the chief rebuked him, saying the elk along the Allegheny were by far much larger and wilder.
	www.mlrmag.com /sections/cornplanter/cornplanters_wager.html (1314 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Cornplanter, can you swim?
		Cornplanter and the Genesee River Senecas found their country in ruins and moved to the Allegheny River settlements along the New York-Pennsylvania border.
		At this point, Cornplanter was induced to throw in his lot with the Americans, and the Seneca duel’s influence was decisive with all the Iroquois.
		As early as February, 1961, the Cornplanter heirs, organized as the Cornplanter Indian Landowners Corporation, accepted the fact that most of the grant would have to be given up to the reservoir and that The Cornplanter’s grave and monument would have to be moved.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1968/1/1968_1_4.shtml (6934 words)

	Cornplanter State Forest
		Cornplanter State Forest is located in western Forest County, is named in honor of Chief Cornplanter of the Seneca tribe.
		Cornplanter State Forest is a beautiful area providing both recreation and economic resources to the region.
		Even with those who do know about the main Cornplanter State Forest area very few know the there are a couple other parcels of land located some 20 miles away in the Townville area which are part of the same forest.
	www.oilregion.com /CSF.htm (325 words)

	Sequoya
		Cornplanter was a Seneca who was one of the great Native American orators in the late 1700's and early 1800's.
		Cornplanter was active as a chief of the Seneca's.
		Cornplanter frequently attended councils in Philadelphia, traveling great distances for these sessions, in order to protest treatment of his tribe and make peaceful attempts to secure better conditions.
	members.fortunecity.com /cptdad/57.html (249 words)

	Native
		Cornplanter once said that so Great was this Whiteman Washington that a bullet at close range could not kill him.
		Cornplanter picked the lands he called Kinzua a word that means "lands of many and big fishes".
		In 1794 Cornplanter and Washington signed a treaty giving the lands of Kinzua to Cornplanter and his people as long as the grass shall grow, as long as the rivers flowed, as long as the sun does rise and as long as the moon does shine.
	www.warrennet.com /Kinzua/link1.html (322 words)

	Chief Cornplanter
		In the 1790's Cornplanter protested the influx of white settlers onto the Iroquois lands which resulted in a land grant to himself and his heirs for perpetuity.
		Cornplanter's ancestors resisted the construction of the proposed dam that would flood the land where they lived and buried their families for over a hundred years.
		Town and villages were flooded; Cornplanters Grave was re-located to Riverside Cemetery, his obelisk visible to boaters on the Allegheny Reservoir - his legacy forever written in the hills and valleys of Kinzua.
	www.northernalleghenies.com /cornplanter.html (634 words)

	The Mountain Laurel Review - The Cornplanter Chronicles
		The tale of Chief Cornplanter encompasses the 100 years of the life of the man. It begins with the first white men in northwestern Pennsylvania.
		He was known as Ganiodieu among the Seneca and the name Cornplanter began as a taunt from the children with whom he played.
		Cornplanter was fluent in his native Iroquois tongue, French, English, Spanish and German.
	www.mlrmag.com /sections/cornplanter/cornplanter.html (514 words)

	NEPA News - Erosion concerns over Seneca cemetery dredge lingering bitterness
		Nearby, the cemetery of a Seneca Nation Indian chief, Cornplanter, had to be unearthed and moved to an idyllic bluff overlooking the new body of water _ and the land he and his descendants once owned.
		Fueling the frustration among some is bitterness that lingers among displaced residents and their families _ both white and Seneca _ over the construction of the dam in the first place.
		Cornplanter and his relatives lived and were originally buried on that land.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=18561350&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6 (1251 words)

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