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Chester Redeye, a resident of the Cornplanter Tract, Warren County, PA, circa 1950.
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Chester Redeye, a resident of the Cornplanter Tract, circa 1950.

Credit: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania State Museum, Archeology

By the 1790s, the Cornplanter Tract near the New York border in Warren County was the only self-governing Indian community remaining within the state of Pennsylvania. There a small Seneca community remained until 1959, when construction of the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River forced them to move. Most resettled on other Seneca lands in western New York.

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