The conflict is named after its most famous participant, the Ottawa leader Pontiac; variations include "Pontiac's War", "Pontiac's Rebellion", and "Pontiac's Uprising". An early name for the war was the "Kiyasuta and Pontiac War"."Kiyasuta" is a different spelling for Guyasuta, an influential Seneca/Mingo leader. The war became widely known as "Pontiac's Conspiracy" after Francis Parkman's "The Conspiracy of Pontiac" was published in 1851. This important book has been the definitive account of the war for nearly a century and is still in print.