When your army entered the country of the Six Nations, we called you Caunotaucarius, the Town _________; and to this day when that name is heard, our women look behind them and turn pale, and our children cling to the knees of their mothers.
When your army entered the country of the Six Nations, we called you Caunotaucarius, the Town _________; and to this day when that name is heard, our women look behind them and turn pale, and our children cling to the knees of their mothers.
Cornplanter (Seneca), to George Washington, 1790
What's the missing word in the Seneca's nickname for Washington?
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