Cornstalk

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Total plays

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Quotes

• “Pretend to be friendly. Eat with them. Laugh with them. When they are sated and trust you, attack them, kill all their men and kidnap their women and children!”
• “What shall we do now? the big knife is coming on us and we shall all be killed. Now we must fight or we are done. Then let us kill all our women and children and go fight until we die? I shall go and make peace!”
• “When I was a young man and went to war, I thought that might be the last time, and I would return no more. Now I am here among you; you may kill me if you please; I can die but once; and it is all one to me, now or another time.”
• “My son, the Great Spirit has seen fit that we should die together; and has sent you here. It is his will. Let us submit. It is best...”
• “There was a time when the name of Cornstalk thrilled every heart in West Virginia. Here and there among the mountains may be found an aged one, who remembers the terrors of Indian warfare as they raged on the rivers, and in the retired glens, west of the Blue Ridge, under that noted savage. Cornstalk was to the Indians of West Virginia, what Powhatan was to the tribes on the Sea Coast, the greatest and the last chief.”
• “Upon reaching a place of safety, the Indians held a council. They had been defeated in their long expected great battle. The "long knives" were pressing on. Cornstalk enquired, what should be done. No one spoke. After a solemn pause, Cornstalk arose. "We must fight, or we are undone. Let us kill our women and children, and go and fight till we die." He sat down. After a long pause, he rose again and striking his tomahawk into the council post, said — "Then I'll go and make peace."”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Pennsylvania

Place of death

Point Pleasant

Sibling

Nonhelema

Occupation

traditional leader or chief

Image

1872 Chiefs Cornstalk Logan and Red Eagle from Frosts pictorial history of Indian.jpg

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