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Statue of the Mingo, Greetings to Wayfarers, in Wheeling, West Virginia Statue of Mingo, Greetings to Wayfarers, in Wheeling, West Virginia. The etymology of the name Mingo derives from the Delaware (Lenape) word, mingwe or Minque, as adapted from their Algonquian language, meaning "stealthy". In the 17th century, the terms Minqua or Minquaa ...
Logan the Orator (c. 1723 – 1780) was a Cayuga orator and war leader born of one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.After his 1760s move to the Ohio Country, he became affiliated with the Mingo, a tribe formed from Seneca, Cayuga, Lenape and other remnant peoples.
Chief Logan State Park is located on 3,988 acres (1,614 ha) [2] about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Logan in Logan County, West Virginia, United States.The park, the town and the county were all named after Chief Logan, a Mingo (or Ohio Iroquois) Native American leader who lived in the region before the American Revolutionary War.
Mingo Lodge and Mingo Trail are being renamed, the park district said, as part of an effort led by archaeologists and historians in its conservation department to more meaningfully honor the land ...
Mingo Junction is a village in eastern Jefferson County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 3,347 at the 2020 census . It is part of the Weirton–Steubenville metropolitan area .
As of December 27, 2022 there is one statue on a large stone of General Robert E. Lee at the Antietam battlefield, visible from the road. It was on private land adjacent to the park, and was donated with the land. The "Talbot Boys" statue in Easton, Maryland was the last Confederate monument removed from public property on March 14, 2022.
Little is known about Queen Aliquippa's early life. Her date of birth has been estimated anywhere from the early 1670s to the early 18th century. By the 1740s, she was the leader of a band of Mingo Seneca living along the three rivers (the Ohio River, the Allegheny River, and the Monongahela River) near what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Shikellamy (1680 - December 6, 1748), also spelled Shickellamy and also known as Swatana, was an Oneida chief and overseer for the Iroquois confederacy.In his position as chief and overseer, Shikellamy served as a supervisor for the Six Nations, overseeing the Shawnee and Lenape tribes in central Pennsylvania along the Susquehanna River and protecting the southern border of the Iroquois ...