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.
The brilliant eyes of Daganoweda glittered in his dark face.

He knew that Tayoga would not pay the Mohawks so high a compliment unless he meant it.
"Tayoga," he said, "we belong to the leading nations of the great League of the Hodenosaunee, you to the Onundahgaono and I to the Ganeagaono.

You are first in the council and we are first on the warpath.

It was Tododaho, the Onondaga, who first formed the great League and it was Hayowentha, the Mohawk, who combed the snakes out of his hair and who strengthened it and who helped him to build it so firmly that it shall last forever.

Brothers are we, and always shall be." He touched his forehead in salute, and the Onondaga touched his in reply.
"Aye, brothers are we," he said, "Mohawk and Onondaga, Onondaga and Mohawk.