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Identifier: bulletin3011907smit Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Subjects: Ethnology Publisher: Washington : G. P. O. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: 350 CORNSTALK CORRAL [B. A. K, ties to the treaty of Ft Stanwix in 1784, when a large cession of land was made by the Indians; he also took part in the treaty of Ft Harniar in 1789, in which an extensive territory was conveyed to the United States (although his name is not among the signers); and he was a signer of the treaties of Sept. 15, 1797, and July 30, 1802. These acts rendered him so unpopular with his tribe that for a time his life was in danger. In 1790 he, to- gether with Halftown, visited Philadel- phia to lay before Gen. Washington the grievances complained of l)y their peo- ple. In 1816 he resided just within the limits of Pennsylvania on his grant 7 m. below the junction of the Conne- wango with the Allegheny, on the banks of the latter. He then owned 1,800

Text Appearing After Image: CORNPLANTER. (mcKennev and Hall) acres, of which 640 formed a tract granted to him by Pennsylvania, Mar. 16, 1796, "for his many valuable services to the whites." It is said that in his old age he declared that the "Great Spirit" told him not to have anything more to do with the whites, nor even to preserve any memen- tos or relics they had given him. Im- pressed with this idea, he burned the l)elt and broke the elegant sword that had been given him. A favorite son (Henry Obeal), who had been carefully educated, became a drunkard, thus adding to the troubles of Cornplanter's last years. He received from the United States, for a time, a pension or grant of $250 per year. He was perhaps more than 90 years of age at the time of his death, Feb. 18, 1836. A monument erected to his memory on his reservation by the state of Pennsyl- vania in 1866 bears the inscription "aged about 100 years." (c. t.) Cornstalk. A celebrated Shawnee chief (born about 1720, died in 1777) who held authority over those of the tribe then set- tled on the Scioto, in Ohio. He was brought most prominently into notice by his leadership of the Indians in the bat- tle of Point Pleasant, at the mouth of Great Kanawha r., W. Va., Oct. 10, 1774. Although defeated in a battle lasting throughout the day, his prowess and gen- eralship on this occasion—where his force, mostly Shawnee, numbering probably 1,000, was opposed to 1,100 Virginia vol- unteers—won the praise of the whites. After this battle he entered into a treaty of peace with Lord Dunmore in Nov., 1774, at Chillicothe, Ohio, although stren- uously opposed by a part of his tribe, and faithfully kept it until 1777. In the lat- ter year the Shawnee, being incited to re- new hostilities, he went to Point Pleasant and notified the settlers that he might be forced into the war. The settlers detained him and his son as hostages, and they were soon after murdered by some in- furiated soldiers in retaliation for the killing of a white settler l)y some roving Indians, thus arousing the vindictive spirit of the Shawnee, which was not broken until 1794. Cornstalk was not only a brave and energetic warrior, but a skilful general and an orator of consid- erable ability. A monument was erected to his memory in the court-house yard at Point Pleasant in 1896. Cornstalk's Town. A Shawnee village on Scippo cr., opposite Squaw Town, Pickawav co., Ohio, nearlv due s. from Circleville, in 1774.—Howe, Hist. Coll. Ohio, 402, 1896. Corn Village. A former Natchez settle- ment. Corn Village.—Gayarre, La., I, 411, 1851. Flour Village.—Dumont In French, Hist. Coll. La., V, 48, 1853. CorodeguacM. A former Opata pueblo on the headwaters of the Rio Sonora, n. E. Sonora, Mexico, about 25 m. below the boundary of Arizona. It was the seat of the Spanish mission of Santa Rosa, founded in 1653, and of the presidio of Fronteras, established in 1690. In 1689 the mission was abandoned on account of the hostilities of the Jocome, Suma, Jano, and Apache; and owing to Apache depredations in more recent years the settlement was deserted by its inhabitants on several occasions, once as late as about 1847. (f. w. h.) Corodeguachi.—Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 354, 1889. Santa Rosa Corodeguatzi.—Doc. of 18th cent, quoted by Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 529, 1892. Santa Rosa de Coradeguatzi.—Orozco y Berra, Geog., 343, 1834. Corral. A rancheria of gentile Diegue- iios near San Diego, s. Oal., in 1775.

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