The Cornplanter Memorial

The following is a report made to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania regarding a statute made in remembrance of Cornplanter, a Dutch-Seneca war chief and diplomat of the Wolf clan. As a chief warrior, Cornplanter fought in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. In both wars, the Seneca and three other Iroquois nations were allied with the British. After the war, Cornplanter led negotiations with the United States and was a signatory of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784). He helped gain Iroquois neutrality during the Northwest Indian War.