# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jesse-cornplanter
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:08:39.699Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jesse-cornplanter"
name: "Jesse Cornplanter"
slug: "jesse-cornplanter"
description: "Jesse J. Cornplanter was an actor, artist, author, craftsman, Seneca Faithkeeper and decorated veteran of World War I. The last male descendant of Cornplanter, an important 18th-century Haudenosaunee leader and war chief, his Seneca name was Hayonhwonhish. He illustrated several books about Seneca and Iroquois life. Jesse Cornplanter wrote and illustrated Legends of the Longhouse (1938), which records many Iroquois traditional stories. Cornplanter was also the first Native American to play a lead in a feature film titled Hiawatha, which was released in 1913 and a year before the notable Western The Squaw Man."
tagline: "Haudensosaunee artist and author from New York (1889-1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jesse_Cornplanter%2C_descendant_of_Cornplanter%2C_the_famous_Seneca_chief%2C_making_a_ceremonial_mask%2C_Tonawanda_Community_Hou_-_NARA_-_519161.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1889-09-16"
deathDate: "1957-03-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.412312
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7220207/"
    handle:    "nm7220207"
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Cornplanter"
    title: "Jesse Cornplanter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Cornplanter"
    title: "Jesse Cornplanter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Cornplanter"
    title: "Jesse Cornplanter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Cornplanter"
    title: "Jesse Cornplanter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4895415"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1667785"
    title: "Jesse Cornplanter"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump