Mingo
The
Mingo people were an Iroquois group that migrated west to the Ohio River Valley in the mid-eighteenth century
1850s and formed their own distinct identity there. This conflicted, however, with the hordes of white settlers, who vied with them for control of the region, and a series of battles ensued, with the Mingo led by
Chief Logan. Despite some pockets of resistance, the Mingo were crushed, and the surviving members of the group mixed with the larger
Shawnee and
Miami peoples. The Mingo were finally defeated by the
United States in
1831 and forced to move to a reservation in the west.