The Iroquois captives may have submitted to the fact they were now Wyandotte, but their blood ran Iroquois. Of those captured at the English fort, only the Iroquois men who had remained behind lived to tell about it. They were trained to be brave from childhood, masking any indication of pain while the white men had failed the test, instantly killed for their weakness.

Unlike most of the Wyandotte, they had not converted, watching in silence as the tribe grappled with ...