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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.
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Ely S. Parker
United States government official
Laura Maria Sheldon Wright
American missionary
Red Jacket
Red Jacket
Seneca chief
Ganioda’yo
Seneca chief
Cornplanter
Seneca leader
David Brainerd
American missionary
Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan
American anthropologist
Theodore Baker
American music scholar and lexicographer

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