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Cornstalk
Native American in the American Revolution
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Native American in the American Revolution
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Not who you're looking for? Others named Cornstalk: unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia
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Cornstalk was a Shawnee leader in the Ohio Country in the 1760s and 1770s. His name in the Shawnee language was Hokoleskwa. Little is known about his early life. He may have been born in the Province of Pennsylvania. In 1763, he reportedly led a raid against British American colonists in Pontiac's War. He first appears in historical documents in 1764, when he was one of the hostages surrendered to the British as part of the peace negotiations ending Pontiac's War.