>From the book, "Through Indian Eyes" The Untold Story of Native American Peoples, published by The Reader's Digest: "White Battles, Red Blood" "Even as the last of the Fox retired to their Wisconsin homeland, wandering bands of Shawnee began moving back to the Ohio Valley. Other groups were filtering in as well - Huron from the area around Detroit, Delaware refugees from the Eastern seaboard, Munsee from New Jersey and even some Iroquois splinter groups known as Mingos. At the same time, the first English traders began to arrive...." This is the only mention of Mingos in this book. Peggy, Maryland>Michigan ---------- > > ... the Mingo Tribe in and around VA, and Chief John Logan, .c1770. > > Does anyone know what major group the Mingo tribe is part of (i.e. Shawnees)? > > 'Mingo' refers mainly to western Iroquois who shared kinship & > social organization with the Six Nations Confederacy, but who > were politically independent of them -- generally Seneca, Cayuga > (including Logan's father), Oneida, Onondaga, & Mohawk, although > could also include Miamis & others, even stray Shawnee, living in > their villages. > > Regards - rdw < rdwinthrop@a1access.net >