French and Iroquois. Fort Frontenac was attacked by Iroquois forces in 1689, and the Indians requested Millet's presence among their dying men. Members of the Onondaga tribe captured him and eventually turned him over to the Oneidas, who gave him the name Genherontatie, i.e., "The Dead (or Dying) Man who walks". He was about to be executed when he was adopted by an Indian woman, who gave him shelter until he was released in October, 1694, and went to Quebec. John Gilmary Shea notes that Millet's influence among the Oneida was such that the English worked to have him released, while the French wanted him to remain there. In 1697, a band of Oneidas came to live at Montreal and requested that he be assigned as a missionary. In 1700, Millet wrote at least once to Rome (10 August 1700) a mild and submissive complaint that he had not yet obtained the favour of returning to the Iroquois. He asked for prayers of the Society for Tarsha the chief and Suzanne his sister at Oneida, both of whom had acted as hosts to Millet during his captivity. Millet spent his last years at Quebec. In 1705, he is described as under treatment for ill health. He lingered on for three years more but, on the last day of 1708, he died. In 1926 the Knights of Columbus dedicated a cross in his honor at Fort Niagara. See also Julien Garnier Father Millet Cross References Sources Francis Whiting Halsey: Jesuits and Church of England Men External links 1708 deaths 17th-century French Jesuits French Roman Catholic missionaries People of the Province of New York 18th-century French Jesuits Year of birth unknown Jesuit missionaries in New France