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Ki-on-twog-ky, or Corn Plant[er], a Seneca Chief, lithograph from The History of the Indian Tribes of North America by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, 1836–44. agriculture fertility mask Indigenous peoples of the American Northeast
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Ki-on-twog-ky, or Corn Plant[er], a Seneca Chief, lithograph from The History of the Indian Tribes of North America by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, 1836–44.
agriculture fertility mask
Indigenous peoples of the American Northeast
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Laura Maria Sheldon Wright
American missionary
Red Jacket
Red Jacket
Seneca chief
Cornplanter
Seneca leader
Ganioda’yo
Seneca chief
David Brainerd
American missionary
Ely S. Parker
United States government official
Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan
American anthropologist
Theodore Baker
American music scholar and lexicographer

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