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	The Code Of Handsome Lake
		Despite the striking similarities between Handsome Lake's portrayal of the dispute between the Creator and the Tormentor and the punishment of the wicked in a kind of 'hell', and corresponding teachings in Christianity, Parker states that Handsome Lake's portrayal is here a "typical example of Iroquois philosophy.
		Handsome Lake's people, the Seneca, were members of a six nation confederacy called the 'Iroquois,' which by the eighteenth century had been reduced to poverty with much loss of land, whilst its culture was in ruins.
		It has been suggested that Handsome Lake aided the adaptation of traditional Iroquois belief to the realities of reservation life, and even that he might be responsible for the Iroquois' survival in the nineteenth century, in part, by rendering agricultural work acceptable to men (Snow:1996 p.162).
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/nam/handsome.html (1926 words)

	The My Hero Project - Handsome Lake
		Handsome Lake said he had been visited by four spiritual messengers who gave him instructions on how the people were supposed to live - to be thankful and continue the thanksgiving ceremonies, to respect other humans and everything in the natural world, to honor the family and refrain from abuse of spouses.
		Apparently during the 1790s he received the title Handsome Lake (Ganeodiyo, the name traditionally borne by one of the sachems chosen to represent the Seneca at the national Iroquois council), and in that capacity he signed the treaty of Big Tree (1797), by which the Iroquois of New York were left with eleven reservations.
		Handsome Lake's influence was strongest among the Senecas, Onondagas, and Oneidas of New York, although it spread to the Wyandots and Iroquois of the Sandusky in Ohio, whom he visited in 1806.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=handsomelake (1565 words)

	White Dove's Native American Indian Site Handsome Lake (Sganyadia:yo) (1735-1815)
		Handsome Lake (Sganyadai:yo) was born in 1735 at the village of Ganawagrahs, in present-day New York State.
		The unconscious Handsome Lake — in at least one account he was taken by his family for dead and dressed for burial — awakened some hours later and began to recount three visions he had had while he lay sick.
		The preaching of the Code of Handsome Lake, which embodies the most profound tenets of the Longhouse beliefs, remains the heart and soul of their faith, and sustains that faith as a living testament to Iroquois tradition.
	users.multipro.com /whitedove/encyclopedia/handsome-lake-sganyadia-yo-1735-1815.html (1016 words)

	Handsome Lake Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Handsome Lake was born around 1735 in the Seneca village of Conewaugus, located on the Genesee River near Avon, New York.
		Handsome Lake presented his message along with a threat that fire would destroy the world if this Code was not obeyed.
		Handsome Lake soon became obsessed with witch hunting and demanded confessions from those whom he suspected of witchcraft; some of those who refused to confess were killed.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/handsome-lake (697 words)

	Handsome Lake: The Iroqouis Who Saw Visions by Alfred G. Hilbert
		Handsome Lake led a dissipated life until at the age of 64 in 1799, friendless and even shunned by all his relatives except his daughter, he lay ill and near death in his bare cabin along the Allegheny River on the Cattaraugus reservation.
		Handsome Lake advised his people that their old practice of expecting the women to do all of the food growing, while the men only hunted, would no longer sustain them.
		Handsome Lake was invited to Washington and was given a letter of commendation by president Thomas Jefferson.
	www.crookedlakereview.com /articles/67_100/83feb1995/83hilbert.html (2622 words)

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		Handsome Lake was a half brother of the Seneca chief Cornplanter and an uncle of Red Jacket.
		Handsome Lake was born at Conawagus, a Seneca village near contemporary Avon, New York, on the Genesee River.
		Handsome Lake also borrowed heavily from the Iroquois Great Law of Peace, popularizing such concepts as looking into the future for seven generations and regarding the earth as one's mother, ideas which have since become part of pan-Indian thought across North America and from there were incorporated into late-twentieth-century popular environmental symbolism.
	www.axel-jacob.de /no_photos03.html (2263 words)

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		Handsome Lake and his message of revelation was received with wide acceptance among the people of the Seneca.
		Handsome Lake's preaching clothed his followers with divine sanction, to strengthen their moral principles, to follow the ancient faith, by the use of holding eternal punishment over their heads.
		Handsome Lake revitalized the old religion by endorsing the ancient ritual calendar and by singing and passing on the holy songs of the festivals.
	muweb.millersville.edu /~columbus/data/cwk/SENECA.CWK (2267 words)

	Handsome Lake: A New Religion for the Seneca by John H. Martin
		Handsome Lake had been involved in the Indian wars against the whites, but he had become a victim of the alcohol sold to the Indians by white men.
		Handsome Lake's vision defined the sins which the Indians had to forgo, including belief in witchcraft, in love magic, in abortion, and in drunkenness.
		Thus Joseph Brant and Handsome Lake have had an ongoing influence over Iroquois life, the one fighting for the integrity of tribal life, the other re-invigorating a tradition which was in danger of being lost.
	www.crookedlakereview.com /books/saints_sinners/martin3.html (2491 words)

	The Submarine Heritage of Simon Lake
		Although some authorities have questioned the claims of Lake's proponents for his invention of the periscope, the double-hulled submarine, and the diver's lock-in/lock-out chamber, he was a genuine innovator in the field of undersea technology, and his Lake Torpedo Boat Company built a total of 33 submarines for the U.S. Navy between 1909 and 1922.
		Lake's grandfather and his brothers had played a key role in developing the seaside resorts of Ocean City and Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Simon Lake's uncle, Jesse Lake, conceived the basic idea of the caterpillar tractor while building an access road across the marshes that separated Atlantic City from the mainland.
		Lake is the Founder and Director of the Simon Lake Project, whose historical archive and web site, www.simonlake.com, are an excellent source of information about the life and career of Simon Lake.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/cno/n87/usw/issue_16/simonlake.html (4441 words)

	Handsome Lake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Handsome Lake's teachings were both a revival of traditional religious practices as well as a program of cultural adaptation to the realities of reservation life in the United States.
		Handsome Lake had a good relationship with the Quakers who lived among the Seneca and encouraged them to become farmers, since the Quakers were religious pluralists who agreed with a number of Handsome Lake's teachings, especially his stance against alcohol.
		Handsome Lake was disliked and dismissed by Red Jacket, who led a rival faction of Senecas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Handsome_Lake (554 words)

	Handsome - Biography - AOL Music
		When five pieces from the splintered membership of hardcore's most influential '90s outfits came together, Handsome was formed and the songwriting, textural, and creative limits of an entire genre of rock music were expanded to a previously unimaginable degree.
		Handsome was released in February of 1997 and was met with general confusion due to Epic's marketing of the group via their historic punk lineage.
		Handsome was really creating a real new metal of their very own that relied on traditional punk and metal architecture and the very distinct vocals of Chatelain.
	music.aol.com /artist/handsome/200280/biography (536 words)

	oct 14 04 features
		It was a short paddle across a pond, then a 15-minute portage through the woods to reach the lake where Jack came to fish bass as a teenager, then returned as an adult to paddle, camp, and just sit in the quiet.
		Much of the territory between Georgian Bay and Muskoka’s big lakes is like this, a swath of land and water that still seems to belong to the moose, the railways, and the occasional canoeist who would rather have privacy than a well-maintained portage.
		He dubbed this Handsome Lake in honour of the Seneca prophet, whose code of respect for nature, people, and the Creator is still followed by many native people.
	www.muskokan.com /oct_14_04_features.htm (1057 words)

	Handsome Lake Religion - Encyclopedia of Religion
		Handsome Lake Religion Also known as the Longhouse religion or Gui'wiio (Good Message), founded by an alcoholic Seneca chief, Ganioda'yo ('handsome lake') (1735-1815), whose heavenly revelations in 1799 transformed himself and the demoralized Seneca.
		Quaker beliefs were combined with traditional rituals and a puritan and modernizing ethics.
		Authorized preachers of the Code of Handsome Lake still serve some 5,000 adherents in Upper New York, Ontario and Quebec, and maintain Indian identity.
	www.religion-encyclopedia.com /H/handsome_lake_religion.htm (120 words)

	Handsome Lake - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Handsome Lake, Ganioda’yo (1735–1815), Native American religious leader of the Seneca people (see Iroquois).
		Lake, large, inland body of fresh or salty standing water.
		Lakes are distinguished from bodies of water such as bays and gulfs, and some seas, that...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Handsome_Lake.html (101 words)

	RMSC - Louis Henry Morgan Website - Johnson Family Tree
		Arthur C Parker wrote that Handsome Lake was born into the Wolf Clan, but was later "borrowed" (adopted) and raised by members of the Turtle Clan.
		Handsome Lake attended the Council of Oswego in 1777, where he strongly supported a neutral stance in the American Revolution.
		Handsome Lake's new way of life for the Senecas received support from the Society of Friends (Quakers) who had been invited by Cornplanter to Jenuchshadago in order to help the Senecas at Allegany adjust to a new way of living.
	www.rmsc.org /museum/exhibits/online/lhm/handsomelake.htm (666 words)

	Code of Handsome Lake: Introduction: Handsome Lake
		Handsome Lake, the Seneca prophet, was born in 1735 in the Seneca village of Conawagas (Ga:no
		Handsome Lake lived to see his people divided into two factions, one that clung to the old order and one that followed him.
		Handsome Lake as the founder of a religious system occupied such a position that his followers place implicit confidence in that system whatever his personal weaknesses and failures may have been.
	www.sacred-texts.com /nam/iro/parker/cohl003.htm (1932 words)

	ActionScript-ToolBox: by Handsome Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Handsome Lake (1735 – 10 August 1815) was a Seneca religious leader of the Iroquois people.
		Handsome Lake encountered controversy when he accused a number of American Indian women of witchcraft; several of these women were executed by Handsome Lake's followers.
		Handsome Lake's teachings, known as The Code of Handsome Lake, eventually became the foundation of the Longhouse religion, which is still followed today.
	www.actionscript-toolbox.com /quotes/author/Handsome-Lake.html (536 words)

	hist0810
		ARTHUR C. The Gai'wiio` is the record of the teachings of Handsome Lake, the Seneca prophet, and purports to be an exact exposition of the precepts that he taught during a term of sixteen years, ending with his death in 1815.
		Handsome Lake, the Seneca prophet, was born in 1735 in the Seneca village of Conawagas (Ga:non'wagês) on the Genesee river opposite the present town of Avon, Livingston county..
		The force of Handsome Lake's teaching, however, is still felt and affects in some way all the New York reservations, except perhaps St Regis.
	nativenewsonline.org /history/hist0810.html (3436 words)

	Niagara Falls Reporter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Handsome Lake was a Seneca -- prominent half-brother to the famous chief Cornplanter -- and two centuries ago he traversed the Niagara region frequently in both peace and war.
		But after his dream 36 years later, according to that historian, Handsome Lake became a famous orator and preacher, for 16 years articulating the dilemmas in which the Seneca were trapped and prescribing "both religious and secular solutions" -- including refraining from drinking whiskey, practicing magic, and engaging in sexual promiscuity.
		Handsome Lake urged his people to confess their sins, abandon evil, and strive for salvation.
	www.niagarafallsreporter.com /hanchette43.html (1261 words)

	Anthropology Review Database
		Central to his analysis of cultural change and continuity is his comparison (and contrast) of Sour Springs ceremonial practices and beliefs with the teachings of the Seneca prophet Handsome Lake a century earlier.
		Handsome Lake was at the vanguard of an Iroquois revitalization movement in which Euro-American/ Christian traditions were selectively integrated into a pan-Iroquois belief system in the midst of colonial crisis.
		Although the Cayugas believe (as Handsome lake taught) that the Fourth Angel is Jesus Christ, speck notes that they do not attribute this belief to handsome lake.
	wings.buffalo.edu /ARD/showme.cgi?keycode=166 (1273 words)

	Apocalypse and Milennium: A Bibliography
		Wallace begins with a brief sketch of the history of the Handsome Lake Movement, proposed as a case study to illustrate his model of "mazeway resynthesis" in the special case of religious inspiration.
		At the time of Handsome Lake's vision (1799) the Seneca Nation had gone from the position of one of the three major powers in northern North America to a rural proletariat in extreme deprivation and hardship in the course of a single generation.
		Handsome Lake's alcoholism and other troubles had made him so ill that he was bedridden, and then he had his vision [which seems to have been a near-death experience; Wallace reports that his relatives were preparing to bury him when he revived].
	www.bu.edu /mille/scholarship/bibliography/bibliosubjects/711.html (1457 words)

	Oneida Nation of Wisconsin Museum
		It was at the time that Handsome Lake was waiting for the four messengers to show him the two roads, one to the Creator's land and the other to the Punisher's land.
		When Handsome Lake turned to see who was speaking, he saw no one.
		Handsome Lake told the corn that it was not his decision to make to take away the plant life --the food-- from the earth.
	museum.oneidanation.org /education/greenCorn.htm (550 words)

	Handsome Lake Religion - Godulike - An Irreverent Look at the Faith Industry
		Handsome Lake is not a sparkling body of good looking water; it is merely the English translation of a male Iroquois name.
		Handsome and his preachers selected a small but important number of the more familiar Christian and Quaker ideas to add a little weight to their own.
		Handsome Lake himself died in 1815 but his basic teaching and simple hopes live on.
	www.godulike.co.uk /faiths.php?chapter=45&subject=who (667 words)

	"the People's Paths!" NAIIP News Path! - NAJ ~ Boarding Schools And The Future
		Some have asserted that Handsome Lake was vehemently opposed to the white man's education.
		Handsome Lake's relationship with his nephew, (the son of his half-brother, the famous war chief Cornplanter) was educated at the white man's school at Philadelphia.
		At no point does Handsome Lake suggest that people who become educated have somehow erred and should repent, nor is there any story about punishments for having gone to school in the Gaiwiio.
	www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net /News2001/0103/NAJ010308HandsomeLake.htm (839 words)

	Code of Handsome Lake Index
		The Code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca Prophet
		Handsome Lake (1735-1815) was a religious reformer among the Iroquois, the prominent alliance of New York tribes.
		It also contains some startling prophecies: Handsome Lake believed the world would end (by fire) in the year 2100; he predicted the destruction of the environment, famines, and war; and one of his visions (see section 93) appears to describe the destruction of the ozone layer.
	www.sacred-texts.com /nam/iro/parker/index.htm (236 words)

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