Two depictions of the legendary old Seneca chief, Cornplanter, who inhabited the forest up near the New York state line. Both of these images turned up this past Thursday on my trip to Oakland, one in the Carnegie Museum and the other in the windows of Heinz Chapel.
Although Cornplanter's land grant was promised to him and his descendants for all time, it was taken away entirely by eminent domain when the Kinzua Dam was built. Most of his village is now under water. Apparently Johnny Cash sang about the injustice of it, but that was before my time.
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