caption resting_place relations death_date tribe death_place birth_place successor children parents native_name birth_date known_for image article_title name nicknames
chief cornplanter , portrait by frederick bartoli , 1796 corydon , pa brother uncle , guyasutha . nephew , governor blacksnake . , half-town ; half-brother , handsome lake . 1836 seneca cornplanter tract , pennsylvania canawaugus -lrb- now part of caledonia , ny -rrb- edward cornplanter henry abeele , edward cornplanter aliquipiso/gahonnoneh -rrb- -lrb- seneca -rrb- , johannes abeel -lrb- dutch '' ` kaintwakon '' ' ` gaiänt ` wakê '' ' , '' c. 1732 war fought with british during american revolutionary war . known for chief his diplomacy . opposed liquor ; worked with quakers to during bring farming to the seneca . his home , the the cornplanter tract , was flooded by kinzua dam . french and indian war . cornplanter.jpg cornplanter
 cornplanter john abeel , john o'bail
cornplanter

john abeel -lrb- ca. 1732 -- february 18 , 1836 -rrb- , known as gaiänt ` wakê -lrb- `` gyantwachia '' - ″ the planter ″ -rrb- or kaiiontwa ` kon -lrb- `` kaintwakon '' - `` by what one plants '' -rrb- in the seneca language and thus generally known as cornplanter , was a seneca war chief and diplomat .
as a chief warrior , cornplanter fought in the french and indian war and the american revolutionary war .
in both wars , 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 -lrb- 1784 -rrb- .
he helped gain iroquois neutrality during the northwest indian war .
in the postwar years , he worked to learn more about european-american ways and invited quakers to establish schools in seneca territory .
disillusioned by his people 's poor reaction to european-american society , he had the schools closed and followed his half-brother handsome lake 's movement returning to traditional seneca way .
the united states government granted him about 1500 acres of former seneca territory in pennsylvania in 1796 for `` him and his heirs forever '' , which became known as the cornplanter tract .
it was flooded in 1965 by the kinzua dam , and most of the remaining residents were relocated to the allegany reservation of the federally recognized seneca nation of new york .
