title: Chainbreaker's War: A Seneca Chief Remembers the America
author: Blacksnake
description: Chainbreakers War is a highly accessible edition of this fascinating memoir. -- <i>Karim M. Tiro (Dept. of History, Xavier University) New York History, Fall 2003</i><br /><br />For anyone interested in New York or Pennsylvania history, Native American history, or the history of the Revolutionary War period. -- <i>The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 3/2003</i><br /><br />Hardly the nave Native Americans of popular lore  Chainbreakers War presents their story with stark immediacy. -- <i>Dutchess Magazine, December 2002</i><br /><br />Here is the vivid retelling of the greatest chapter in Americas story from an underrepresented point of view. --<i>Albany Times Union, January 26, 2003.</i>
zlib_text: "If the Saganaw would not see the earth red with the blood of his race, he
  will go," interrupted the female. "Oucanasta can feel the breath of the
  morning fresh upon her cheek, and the council of the chiefs must be begun."
  
  "The Saganaw is ready, and Oucanasta shall lead the way," hastily returned the
  officer. "One word more, Donellan;" and he pressed the hand of his domestic
  kindly: "should I not return, you must, without committing Halloway or
  yourself, cause my father to be apprised that the Indians meditate a deep and
  treacherous plan to get possession of the fort. What that plan is, I know not
  yet myself, neither does this woman know; but she says that I shall hear it
  discussed unseen, even in the heart of their own encampment. All you have to
  do is to acquaint my father with the existence of danger. And now be cautious:
  above all things, keep close under the shadow of the bomb-proof; for there are
  scouts constantly prowling about the common, and the glittering of the uniform
  in t