Jesse Cornplanter

Jesse Cornplanter. Actor: Hiawatha. Jesse Cornplanter was a member of the Seneca Nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy). He was born on the Cattaraugus Reservation in upstate New York and was a descendant of Cornplanter, the famous Seneca war chief during the American Revolutionary War. Jesse toured Europe with his father in a theatrical troupe (1904-05)and in 1912 began performing throughout the eastern U.S. with other Indian players in the...