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.
The eyes of the chief flashed again.
"He has tried to do so," he replied, "but the Ganeagaono are loyal to their brethren of the Hodenosaunee since Tododahoe first found the sacred wampum on the shore of the lake, Chautauqua.

Our three clans, the Turtle, the Wolf and the Bear, met in our largest village south of the river, Ganeagaono (Mohawk), and listened to the bearers of the belts.
Then we sent them back to Onontio, telling them if they wished to be heard further they must bring the belt to the council of all the sachems of the Hodenosaunee in the vale of Onondaga." "The other nations of the Hodenosaunee," said Tayoga, "have always known that the Ganeagaono would do no less.

The Keepers of the Eastern Gate have never departed by the width of a single hair from their obligations." Dayohogo turned his gloomy face upon the Onondaga youth, and it was lighted up suddenly by a smile of appreciation and pleasure.
"Tayoga of the Onundagaono," he said in measured tones, "you have spoken well.

The Onundagaono, the Keepers of the Council Fire, and the Ganeagaono, the Keepers of the Eastern Gate, be the first tribes of the Hodenosaunee, and better it be for a warrior of either to burn two days and two nights in the fire than to violate in the least the ancient customs and laws of the Hodenosaunee." "Before we had the fight with the savage band," said Robert, "we met a Frenchman, the Chevalier Raymond Louis de St.Luc, who was going to the vale of Onondaga with belts from Onontio.