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Title: The Iroquois : or, the bright side of Indian character
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Johnson, Anna C. (Anna Cummings), 1818-1892
Subjects: Iroquois Indians
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s, unknown to fame;and had not war been the most glorious occupation inwhich men could engage, thousands of others would havegone down to the grave unhonored and unsung. With the Iroquois, war and oratory being the onlyfields of distinction, it is only the lives of orators andwarriors that we have to record, in writing Indian history Cornplanter was scarcely less famous than Brandt, ashis feet were, all his life, upon the war-path. The year ofhis birth cannot be ascertained with accuracy, but musthave been as early as 1735. Like Farmers Brother, hewas in the battle which ended so disastrously for theBritish in Braddocks defeat, in 1755 ; and to the Indiansalone the French owed all their victories, in the ^ oldFrench war, as in an Indian country, with the primitiveinhabitants so numerous as they were then, he who securedtheir alliance, must be morally certain of securing victory.Allowing Cornplanter to have been twenty years old atthat time, and he could scarcely have been younger, his
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COEN PLANTER. CORNPLANTER. 221 birthday was three years later than that of Washington.His father was a white man, and his mother an Indian ofthe Seneca nation, and his birthplace Conewango, in thevalley of the Gene&ee River. There is very little for meto relate of him, though he lived more than a hundredyears, and was ever on the alert, because I cannot followhim to the battle ground, and he lived in a time when itwas thought little else was worth relatiDg concerning agreat man, except his great deeds. In a speech which he once wrote to the Governor ofPennsylvania, he says of himself: When I was a child, I played with the butterfly, thegrasshopper, and the frogs; and as I grew up, I began topay some attention, and play with the Indian boys in theneighborhood; they took notice of my skin being a dif-ferent color from theirs, and spoke about it. I inquiredof my mother the cause, and she told me that my fatherwas a resident in Albany. I still ate my food out of abark dish. I grew up

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