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3 unusual facts about Allegany Indian Reservation


Allegany Indian Reservation

By 1957, the year Cornplanter's last direct descendant (Jesse Cornplanter) had died, the Cornplanter Tract had only a seasonal population.

Both the Cornplanter Tract and the western portion of the Allegany Reservation were flooded and mostly made uninhabitable as a result of the construction of the Kinzua Dam; the Senecas were compensated mainly through the construction of Jimerson Town and a handful of other resettlement areas.

Historically the reservation was adjacent to the Cornplanter Tract, a 1500-acre perpetual land grant given to Seneca chief Cornplanter and his descendants that extended into Pennsylvania.



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