He too had the oratorical power which was afterward displayed so signally by the Seneca who was first called by his own people Otetiani and was later known as Sagoyewatha, but who was known to the white men as Red Jacket.
"I speak to you not as a Frenchman nor as an Englishman," said Tayoga, "but as a warrior of the clan of the Bear of the nation Onondaga, of the great League of the Hodenosaunee.

Most of this land belonged to our fathers before ever Englishmen or Frenchmen crossed the great water and put foot upon these shores.

Where you sit now was Stadacona, the village of our brother race, the Mohawks.

Frenchmen or Englishmen may make war upon one another, or they may make peace with one another, but the Hodenosaunee cannot be forgotten.

There are many beautiful rivers and lakes and forests to the south and west, but they do not belong to either Onontio or Corlear.