Cornplanter Monument
Cornplanter died on the Cornplanter Tract in 1836. He requested a grave with no marker. The monument which was installed over his grave by the State of Pennsylvania in 1866 "is believed to be first monument erected in honor of a Native American in the United States."
Hon. James Ross Snowden of Philadelphia gave the dedicatory address. Snowden said in part:
He was a dauntless warrior and wisest statesman of his nation, the patriarch of this tribe and the peacemaker of his race. He was a model man from nature’s mould. Truth, temperance, justice and humanity, never had a nobler incarnation or more earnest and consistent advocate then he. As we loved him personally, and revere the nobel, manly character he bore, we erect this tribute to his memory, that those who live after us may know and imitate his virtues.
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