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Cornplanter

(born c. 1732, New York? — died Feb. 18, 1836, Warren county, Pa., U.S.) American Indian leader. Born to a white trader and a Seneca mother, he fought alongside the British in the American Revolution, leading attacks on white settlements in western New York and Pennsylvania. He later helped negotiate treaties that ceded large tracts of Indian land to the U.S. He earned the enmity of his tribe after advocating Indian nonresistance to white expansion and accepting a land grant from Pennsylvania.

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