The code of Handsome Lake, November 10, 1933 1933

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The code of Handsome Lake, November 10, 1933 1933

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This item is in the hand of Jesse J. Cornplanter, but it is taken from a manuscript by Edward Cornplanter.

1.0 Volume(s), 1 volume, 102 p., photocopy

American Philosophical Society

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Cornplanter, Edward, 1856-1918

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Edward Cornplanter (1856–1918) was a chief of the Seneca people of the Iroquois Nation (Haudenosaunee) and a leading exponent of the Code of Handsome Lake (Gai'wiio, also known as the Longhouse Religion). He was the great-great-grandson of Chief Cornplanter, who led the tribe during the American Revolutionary War. His Seneca name So-son-do-wa means "Deep Night." Cornplanter was one of six Iroquois authorized as "holders of the Gai'wiio"; he regularly traveled among the Iroquois reservations t...