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"Our old men speak often of it, when it belonged to our brethren, the Ganeagaono, known to you as the Mohawks, who never sold or ceded it to anybody." De Galisonnière's face fell a little, but he recovered himself quickly. "That was generations ago," he said, "and time makes many shifts and changes.
Then when my father was a young warrior Frontenac came with a host of white soldiers and the Canadian Indians and killed the warriors and laid waste with fire the lands of the Five Nations, now the Six. Can the Hodenosaunee forget?" The chief gloomed into the fire, and his eyes flashed with the memory of ancient wrongs. "Onontio has sent belts to the Ganeagaono also, has he not?" asked Robert.
"We're now within the land of the Mohawks, are we not, Tayoga?" asked Lennox. "Ganeagaono, the Keepers of the Eastern Gate, rule here," replied the young warrior, "but the Hurons dispute their claim." "I've heard that the Mohawks and the Hurons, who now fight one another, were once of the same blood." "It is so. The old men have had it from those who were old men when they were boys.
We have done as much as we hoped, and more than we expected." "True, Daganoweda! True! What are your losses?" "Nine of my men have been slain, but they fell as warriors of the Ganeagaono would wish to fall. Two more will die and others are hurt, but they need not be counted, since they will be in any other battle that may come. And what have you suffered, Great Bear?"
He was able to trace on the outskirts the figures of the sentinels, shadowy and almost unreal in the darkness, but he knew that the warriors of the Ganeagaono watched with eyes that saw everything even in the dusk, and listened with ears that heard everything, whether night or day.
"What is it, Oagowa?" asked Colonel Johnson. "A hostile band, Hurons, Abenakis, Caughnawagas, and others, has entered the territory of the Ganeagaono on the west," replied the warrior. "They are led by an Ojibway chief, a giant, called Tandakora." Robert uttered an exclamation. "The name of the Ojibway attracts your attention," said Colonel Johnson.
He could not forget that this was not Quebec, but Stadacona of the Ganeagaono, whose rights were also the rights of the other nations of the Hodenosaunee, and it was here that Frontenac, who had slaughtered the Iroquois, had made his home and fortress.
French. Ganeagaono, Mohawk, Agnier. Onayotekaono, Oneida, Onneyut. Onundagaono, Onondaga, Onnontague. Gweugwehono, Cayuga, Goyogouin. Nundawaono, Seneca, Tsonnontouans. In Indian social organization, a problem at once suggests itself.
So we have dug up the tomahawk and last night we showed to Sharp Sword and his men and Tandakora the Ojibway how we could use it." Sharp Sword was the Iroquois name for St. Luc, who had already proved his great ability and daring as a forest leader. "The Ganeagaono are now the chief barrier against the French and their tribes," said Tayoga.
Tayoga stood beside him, his nostrils expanding and his gaze fierce: "Stadacona!" he said under his breath, "Stadacona of the Ganeagaono, our great brother nation!" But the emotion of de Galisonnière was of pleasure only. His eyes sparkled with joy and admiration. He was delighted to come back to Quebec, the gay city that he beheld through the eyes of youth and glowing recollections.
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