Ga-geh-djo-wă

Family: Seneca · Role: warrior and chief · First appears: A Sure Revenge

Life events

• Ga-geh-djo-wă married a chief's daughter.(A Sure Revenge)
  • With: the chief's daughter (Chapter 054)
  • “He had a chief's daughter as his wife.”
• Ga-geh-djo-wă was permitted to join the Illinois expedition against the Senecas.(A Sure Revenge)
  • “He begged to join, and they listened with delight when he declared that he, Ga-geh-djo-wă, would bring home more scalps than any. ‘He is one of us,’ they said, and gave him the permission he craved.”
• The Illinois warriors elected Ga-geh-djo-wă chief of their expedition.(A Sure Revenge)
  • “Early in the morning the warriors started, and, delighted with his eloquence and readiness to go against his own tribe, they elected him chief of the expedition.”
• Ga-geh-djo-wă secretly warned a Seneca family of the approaching Illinois attack and arranged an ambush signal.(A Sure Revenge · 📍 the Seneca settlement)
  • With: the Seneca family (Chapter 054)
  • “In hurried words he explained to them their danger: ‘The treacherous Illinois are upon you. Warn all the tribe of Senecas: bid them come early and hide along the range above the valley. I will be there with a heron's plume on my crest, and when I stumble it is the signal for the Senecas to attack. Go and tell the word of Ga-geh-djo-wă. He is true.’”
• Ga-geh-djo-wă signaled the Senecas' ambush and rejoined his own people.(A Sure Revenge · 📍 the valley)
  • “Instantly the war-cry sounded; the Senecas rushed from their ambush, and he left his treacherous foes and rejoined his own people.”
• The Senecas seized Ga-geh-djo-wă and carried him triumphantly to their settlement.(A Sure Revenge · 📍 their settlement)
  • “Ga-geh-djo-wă was seized by the jubilant Senecas and borne in triumph to their settlement.”
• Ga-geh-djo-wă died and was buried with the highest honors of the Senecas.(A Sure Revenge)
  • “He lived many years, the most esteemed warrior and chief of the Senecas, and when he died they buried him with the highest honors they knew”

A Sure Revenge

• married with the chief's daughter (Chapter 054) “He had a chief's daughter as his wife.”

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Extracted from the original text of Myths of the Iroquois. Made with Rho MD.