Cornplanter
Gaiänt'wakê (Kaintwakon; generally known as Cornplanter ca. 1730s–February 18, 1836); was a Seneca war chief during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. In the latter, 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.
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