Editing Cornplanter (section)

==Cornplanter Tract==
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In gratitude for his assistance to the state, the Pennsylvania government gave Cornplanter a grant of {{convert|1500|acre|km2}} in 1796 along the western bank of the [[Allegheny River]] about three miles (5&nbsp;km) below the southern boundary of New York state, allotting it to him and his heirs "forever".<ref name="phmc">{{cite web |url=http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/people/4277/chief_cornplanter/443542|title=Chief Cornplanter |access-date=2010-02-26 |publisher= Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission}}</ref> By 1798, 400 Seneca lived on the land, which was called the Cornplanter Tract or Cornplanter Grant. In 1821 [[Warren County, Pennsylvania]] tried to force Cornplanter to pay taxes for his land, which he protested on the basis that the land had been "granted" to him by the U.S. government. After much talk, the state finally agreed that the Cornplanter Tract was exempt.<ref name="Abler 2007" /> Most of the Cornplanter Tract and his village, ''Diono?sade'gî'' (Place of burnt house) or ''Tiononshaté:ken'' (The house has burnt there), was deserted by the late 1950s, as it was never connected to the electrical grid and was prone to flooding.<ref name = "sacredtexts"/><ref name=lastindianschool>Miller, Ernest C. (1958). "Pennsylvania's Last Indian School." ''Pennsylvania History'', vol. 25, p. 99</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Wallace|first1=Anthony F.C.|title=The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca|url=https://archive.org/details/deathrebirthofse0000unse|url-access=registration|date=1972|publisher=Vintage Books|location=New York|isbn=9780307760562 }}</ref>