biography
| name: |
Handsome Lake
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originally Kaniatario
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| male
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| lived:
| (?1735–1815)
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| biography:
| Seneca political and religious leader, half-brother of Cornplanter, born near present-day Avon, New York, USA. After experiencing a series of visions (1799), he began preaching the traditional values of sobriety, family, and community. Elected a tribal leader in 1801, he convinced the USA to guarantee Iroquois land boundaries and to stop liquor sales on the reservation. He also urged his people to take up farming. His principles, subsequently influenced by Quakers, were published in 1850. |
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