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Last name Skenando
First name John
Display name John Skenando
Other names Scanada;Oskanondonha;Skenandoa;Skonondon;Shenandoah;Skenedo;Skanando;Skonnondogh;Scanado;Scanacloe;Schonandoah
Birth date 1706
Death date 1816
Gender m
Affiliations Oneida Indians
Bio notes Oneida chief. Met with Isaac Coates and John Sharpless in 1798, visited by Joseph Clark, 1801. Supported the colonials during the American Revolution. Visited by Dorothy Ripley in 1805.
Data notes Birth date is approximate

Mentioned in:

Joseph Clark's Of a second Visit to the Indian Country, 1801

John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796

Extract The Speech of John Skenando principal Chief of the Oneida Nation

The Bank of Faith and Works United

Letter from Henry Simmons to Israel Chapin

Life of Thomas Eddy

Some Account of our Journey to Cannandaigue

Account of I. Coates, J. Sharpless, & J. Pierce, visits to Indian Reservation, NY

A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom