What is Handsome Lake?
{{Infobox person | name = Handsome Lake | image = Handsome Lake cropped portrait.jpg | alt = An illustration of an indigenous American man with a feather in his hair | caption = Drawing by [[Jesse Cornplanter]] | other_names = Sganyadái:yo; Sganyodaiyo; Θkanyatararí•yau• | birth_name = Hadawa'ko | birth_date = 1735 | birth_place = [[Canawaugus, New York|Canawaugus]] | death_date = August 10, 1815 | death_place = | nationality = Seneca | occupation = Prophet | years_active = | known_for = The Code of Handsome Lake | notable_works = }} '''Handsome Lake''' ([[Cayuga language]]: '''Sganyadái:yo''', [[Seneca language]]: '''Sganyodaiyo''') ('''Θkanyatararí•yau)'''<ref>Rudes, B. ''Tuscarora English Dictionary'' Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999</ref> (1735 – 10 August 1815) was a [[Seneca people|Seneca]] religious leader.<ref>Wallace, Paul A. W.; Hunter, William A. (1999). ''Indians in Pennsylvania''. Harrisburg, Pa: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. p. 176. [[ISBN (identifier)|ISBN]] [[Special:BookSources/0-89271-017-9|<bdi>0-89271-017-9</bdi>]]. <q>'A Seneca chief of the Turtle Clan, half brother of Cornplanter.'</q></ref> He was an important religious leader of the [[Iroquois|Iroquois Confederacy]]. Handsome Lake was born in [[Canawaugus, New York|Canawaugus]]. His half-brother was [[Cornplanter]]. He signed the [[Treaty of Canandaigua]] (1794). He started the religious movement [[Longhouse Religion|Gai’wiio]] (“Good Message”). He had been very ill and then recovered. He stopped drinking alcohol. Handsome Lake claimed that he got a revelation from spirits. The religious movement combines Iroquois and Christian elements. Handsome Lake said Natives should avoid [[adultery]], drunkenness, laziness, and [[witchcraft]]. European colonies and disease had caused Natives to have social unrest and division. Natives welcomed this new religious movement. The Code of Hands