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Philadelphia: F. W. Greenough, 1838. Hand-coloured lithograph by J. T. Bowen after a painting by Charles Bird King. In excellent condition. A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life. The son of a Seneca mother and the Dutch(or possibly Irish) trader John Abeel or O'Bail, Kiontwogky (now Kaintwakon) or Cornplanter was one of three principal leaders of the Iroquois Confederacy of Six Nations and a renowned Seneca war chief who fought in the French and Indian War (1754-1763). In opposition to Joseph Brant's insistence that the Confederacy ally itself with the British in the American Revolution, Cornplanter, like Red Jacket, favored neutrality, claiming that the war was a white man's affair in which they shouldn't intervene. Despite his initial protestations and the uncustomary dissension…
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Ki-On-Twog-Ky, or Cornplant
de MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
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