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3 unusual facts about Jesse Cornplanter


Dennis Cusick

Jesse Cornplanter (Seneca) carried on the realist tradition in the early 20th century.

Jesse Cornplanter

Frederick Starr commissioned Cornplanter to illustrate Iroquois Indian Games and Dances, a book depicting Iroquois life.

Because he left no heirs, his death officially marked the expiration of a treaty granting Cornplanter's heirs a perpetual Pennsylvania land grant along the Allegheny River; seven years later, much of the tract would be flooded as a result of the construction of the Kinzua Dam.


Allegany Indian Reservation

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


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