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Handsome Lake

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Handsome Lake 1735?-1815, Seneca religious prophet; half brother of Cornplanter . After a long illness he had a vision (c.1800) and began to preach new religious beliefs. His moral teachings showed a similarity to Christian ethics and had a profound effect among the Iroquois. He advocated giving up the nomadic Native American life in favor of agriculture, much to the disgust of Red Jacket . Though Christian missionaries opposed Handsome Lake's religion, it nevertheless persisted alongside Christianity.

Bibliography: See The Code of Handsome Lake (tr. by A. C. Parker, 1913, repr. 1968); A. Wallace, The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca (1969, repr. 1972).

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