Pierre Millet (Milet) (19 November, 1635 at Bourges – December 31, 1708 at Quebec)[1] was a French Jesuit missionary to the Iroquois people in the area that is now New York State.
Denonville set out with a well-organized force to Fort Frontenac, where they met with the fifty sachems of the Iroquois Confederacy from their Onondaga council fire.
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".
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 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.