Cornplanter

Biography:

John Abeel Jr. known as Gaiänt'wakê or Kaiiontwa'kon in the Seneca language and thus generally known as Cornplanter was a Seneca war chief and diplomat. As a war chief 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.