Jesse Cornplanter

Jesse J. Cornplanter (September 16, 1889 – March 18, 1957) was an actor, artist, author, craftsman, Seneca Faithkeeper and World War I festooned veteran. The last male descendant of Cornplanter, an important 18th-century Haudenosaunee leader and achievement chief, his Seneca broadcast was Hayonhwonhish (He Strokes the Rushes). He illustrated several books nearly Seneca and Iroquois life. Jesse Cornplanter wrote and illustrated Legends of the Longhouse (1938), which chronicles many Iroquois standard stories. Cornplanter was then the first Native American to law a lead in a feature film titled Hiawatha, which was released in 1913 and a year before the notable Western The Squaw Man.

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