The song “As Long as the Grass Shall Grow” asks if this leader can swim because the site of his grave was due to be flooded with the construction of the Kinzua Dam. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Seneca war leader who, with Disappearing Smoke, led the Seneca forces in the Battle of Wyoming. Later in life, this leader broke off close relations with the Quakers to support his half-brother Handsome Lake.
ANSWER: Cornplanter [or John Abeel, Gaiänt’wakê, or Kaiiontwa’kon]
[10m] Cornplanter fought with this man in an attack on Cherry Valley, which in part prompted the Sullivan Expedition. This man’s sister Molly was the wife of British administrator William Johnson.
ANSWER: Joseph Brant [or Thayendanegea]
[10e] Later in life, Cornplanter was given a tract of land along this state’s Allegheny River. The sons of this state’s founder defrauded its native Lenape (“luh-NAW-pay”) people in the Walking Purchase.
ANSWER: Pennsylvania [or PA]
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