Big Turkey (Cornstalk) Shawnee
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Big Turkey Hop (Cornstalk) Shawnee (1660 - 1694)

Chief Big Turkey Hop Shawnee formerly Cornstalk
Born in Tennesseemap
Son of and
Brother of [half]
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Father of and
Died at about age 34 [location unknown]
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Biography

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Big Turkey (Cornstalk) Shawnee is currently protected by the Native Americans Project for reasons described below.
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Research suggests that this person may never have existed. See the text for details.
This person's existence and relationships were introduced by Don Greene in his book, Shawnee Heritage.[1] This self-published book contains thousands of names of undocumented Native Americans, including claimed information on their lineages, clans, political divisions, treaties signed and battles fought. Much of it has been proven to be false. See category link above about the validity of this work. There is no historical documentation of this person's existence or relationships.

Disputed Existence

The parents of Hokolesqua, known as Cornstalk, are unknown. He said in a speech that his father was White Fish, a Shawnee man. [2]

The Moravian Missionaries say he was the son or grandson of Paxinosa. [2]

In any case, he was not the son of anyone named Opeechan Stream and Nonoma? Holesqua Opeechan "Stream" Cornstalk.

A chief named Cornstalk/Hokoleskwa did exist. He lived from about 1720-1775, so is not any of the people listed on this profile even though the bio mentions him.

All the people named as parents, siblings, spouse, and children of Big Turkey as well as Big Turkey himself are mythical.

False Biography

Don Greene claimed that he:

  • was a war chief in the Shawnee Nation; which was basically everything east of the Mississippi but not the leader of the whole tribe.
  • had a son Okowellos Cornstalk born:1740, in Ohio,
  • was the only Chief of the Entire Shawnee Nation
  • passed away in 1694.

Sources

  1. ↑ Shawnee Heritage By Don Greene, Noel Schutz, 2008, available at lulu.com.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sugden, John. Cornstalk, in American National Biography, Oxford University Press,1999. Sugden

See also:

Hop Cornstalk-1 was created by Glenn Brackin through the import of Brackin Family Tree.ged on Dec 2, 2014.





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Morton-7125 LaMyra Morton
Hop Cornstalk-1 and Cornstalk-20 appear to represent the same person because: duplication
posted by LaMyra Morton
Parks-2399 Kathie (Parks) Forbes
The web site listed as a source is based in a book by Don Greene which is totally unsupported by fact.
posted by Kathie (Parks) Forbes
Parks-2399 Kathie (Parks) Forbes
There is no documentation for this person. The Shawnee lived in the area where what are now Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky come together until the middle of the 18th century. Intermarriage with Cherokee prior to removal in the mid1800s was rare.
posted by Kathie (Parks) Forbes
Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
I'm reviewing all the Powhatan surname profiles. This one came up. I'm having difficult figuring out who was real and who wasn't and what we need to do to this set of profiles. Can you please advise me, Kathie?
posted by Jillaine Smith

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