Family
Cornplanter was half-brother to Handsome Lake, a Seneca religious leader of the Iroquois. He was uncle to Governor Blacksnake, a Seneca war chief who, like Cornplanter, had an exceptionally long life for a man of his times. Cornplanter's last living direct descendant was the Seneca artist and traditionalist, Jesse Cornplanter (1889–1957).
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