Cornplanter Cornplanter, whose Indian name was Kaintwakon (“what one plants”), headed the Seneca delegation at Fort Stanwix in 1784. Raised fully Indian, he was the son of a highborn Seneca woman of the Wolf Clan and a traveling Dutch fur trader he barely knew. During the Revolution, when his father faced capture by Indians, Cornplanter recognized him by his name and released him.
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