For more than 20 years, New France's diplomacy has protected the colony from Indian attacks. On August 5, 1689, at dawn, 1,500 Iroquois warriors attacked the village of Lachine: 24 colonists were ...

He adopted the listing cadence of the Indians' music and repeated the phrase, "Trample the English underfoot" until he was tired. The next night he was adopted by the Iroquois in a tribal ceremony ...