Handsome lake biography template

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In 1799, a new religious movement was born among the Seneca Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy. The new religious movement, considered to be a traditional Iroquois religion today, began with a series of visions received by Handsome Lake.

Handsome lake biography template

Among this vision was the prophecy that the world would end in 2010.

Handsome Lake was born into the Seneca Wolf clan in 1735. (The Seneca are one of the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.) As a young man, Handsome Lake followed the traditional Iroquois role for men and was a warrior.

In 1765 he was a part of a group of 100 Seneca warriors, under the leadership of Giengwahtoh (Old Smoke). The war party journeyed to the southeast where they raided the Cherokee and the Choctaw.  

In 1777 he was a part of the Iroquois warriors’ council which met with the British regarding the Iroquois role in the American Revolution.

Handsome Lake was one of the warriors who argued that the war was a family affair a