Hiawatha-
Chief Hiawatha lived in the late 14thcentury.
The Iroquois leader pictured above is Tachnechdorus, more commonly known as Logan. In many ways his life was typical of Iroquois leaders living during the mid-to late 1700s. 
Hiawatha- 1550, Legendary chief of the Onondaga of North America. He is credited with founding the Iroquois Confederacy. He is the hero of the well-known poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See T. R. Henry, Wilderness Messiah (1955).
Cornplanter- 1740-1836, chief of the Seneca. The son of a Native American mother and a white father, he acquired great influence among the Seneca and in the American Revolution led war parties for the British against the colonial forces, particularly against Gen. John Sullivan in New York. He later favored friendship with the whites and signed the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784). He was given a grant of land on the Allegheny River, where he lived to a very old age. His views were opposed by the energetic Red Jacket but supported by Handsome Lake (Cornplanter's half brother).
