Seneca Indian Chief Cornplanter Confirms "War of Extermination" Against Ancient White Inhabitants of Kentucky
Centennial
History of Miami County, Ohio 1855
One
Indian tradition averts that the primitive inhabitants of Kentucky
perished in a war of extermination waged against them by the red
tribes, and the Indian chief Tobacco informed George Rogers Clarke of
a tradition in which it was stated that there was a battle at Sandy
Island which decided the fate of the ancient inhabitants. Chief
Cornplanter affirmed that Ohio, and this local section as well, had
once been inhabited by a white race who were familiar with the arts
of which they (The Indians) knew nothing.
