🪶 Indigenous Roots: Today in History… December 1, 1790 – In Philadelphia, Seneca chief Gyantwakia (Cornplanter) stood before President George Washington as a spokesman for his people. Speaking for himself, Half-Town, and Big Tree, he addressed the “Great Councillor of the Thirteen Fires” and laid out how the new United States had taken “a great country” from the Seneca after promising peace. Cornplanter reminded Washington that U.S. negotiators had once told the Seneca they were “in your hand,

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