52 Handsome Lake

Iroquois History and Legends

Andrew James Cotter

Canadian History, Iroquois, History, North American History, First Nations, Religion & Spirituality, American History, Education, Six Nations, Native America, Christianity, Native American, Indian History, Colonial History, Haudenosaunee

4.8 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In 1799 a Seneca man lay on his death bed. But remarkably he recovered very quickly. Then he began sharing with others that he thought that the Great Spirit had visited him. For the rest of his life Handsome Lake would begin a religious revival amongst his people.

Sources:

The Code of Handsome Lake arranged by Ely Parker and republished by Arthur C. Parker

GUYASUTA AND THE FALL OF INDIAN AMERICA BY BRADY J. CRYTZER

An Account of Sa-go-ye-wat-ha, Or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 By John Niles Hubbard

THE CANADIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA

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1:19.8	And welcome to our next episode. This is the third on our bio series for Seneca Cayuga leadership in the late 1700s and this episode will be on a gentleman known as Handsome Lake.
1:34.3	Or as he was known as when he was born, Shaking Snow. It's a pretty cool name too. Yeah. So shaking snow was born around 1735 in the Seneca town of Kananahuagos.
1:47.8	That sounds familiar. It's because the same town that Corn Planter was born in. You want to know why?
1:52.8	Because they were all related. Because they were brothers. Yeah. Anyway, we call it today Avon, New York.
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