![]() The people who became known as Mingo migrated to the Ohio Country along the river in the mid-eighteenth century, part of a movement of various Native American tribes away from European pressures to a region that had been sparsely populated for decades but controlled as a hunting ground by the Iroquois League of the Five Nations. The Mingo had a bad reputation and were sometimes called "Blue Mingo" or "Black Mingo" for their misdeeds. In the 17th century, the terms Minqua or Minquaa were used interchangeably to refer to the five nations of the Iroquois League and to the Susquehannock, another Iroquoian-speaking people. The etymology of the name Mingo derives from the Delaware (Lenape) word, mingwe or Minque, as adapted from their Algonquian language, meaning "stealthy". Statue of Mingo, Greetings to Wayfarers, in Wheeling, West Virginia ![]() They were recognized by the federal government in 1937 as the Seneca–Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma. In the 1930s Mingo descendants reorganized as a tribe with self-government. At the turn of the 20th century, they lost control of communal lands when property was allocated to individual households in a government assimilation effort related to the Dawes Act and extinguishing Indian claims to prepare for the admission of Oklahoma as a state. Most were forced to move from Ohio to Indian Territory in the early 1830s under the federal Indian Removal program. The Mingo have also been called "Ohio Iroquois" and "Ohio Seneca". Anglo-Americans called these migrants mingos, a corruption of mingwe, an Eastern Algonquian name for Iroquoian-language groups in general. ![]() Some Susquehannock survivors also joined them, and assimilated. The Mingo people are an Iroquoian group of Native Americans, primarily Seneca and Cayuga, who migrated west from New York to the Ohio Country in the mid-18th century, and their descendants. Statue of Chief Logan, a notable Mingo leader, in Logan, West Virginia
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