Handsome Lake or Ganioda'yo (1735 - 10 August 1815) was a Seneca religious leader of the Iroquois people. He was also half-brother to Cornplanter. Before his emergence as a prophet, Handsome Lake fought in Pontiac's Rebellion (against the British) and the American Revolutionary War (against the Americans). After struggling with alcoholism and an apparently near-fatal illness in 1799, … Wikipedia
...Indian Addresses To Brother Handsome Lake Washington, November 3, 1802 TO BROTHER Handsome Lake: -- I have received the message in writing which you sent me through Captain Irvine , our ... www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/jeffind2.htm
The plight of the Seneca Indians was more than a discouraging one as the 1800s began. Confined to inadequate reservations, surrounded by alien and unfriendly whites, their traditional hunting grounds gone, split between conservatives and liberals within crookedlakereview.com/books/saints_sinners/martin3.html
One who drank too much was Handsome Lake (Ga-Nya-Di-Yah), a Seneca of the Turtle Clan, born in 1735 near Avon, New York. www.crookedlakereview.com/articles/67_100/83feb1995/83hil...
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