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Profile of Mingo
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1st January 1944 |
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São Paulo, SP, Brazil |
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Tribal Name
Mingo is thought to be a corruption of mingwe, which is an Algonquian word meaning "stealthy" or "treacherous." English colonists used the term to describe the Iroquois bands that had migrated to western Pennsylvania and Virginia by 1740.
Background
The Mingo people are an Iroquois group that migrated west to the Ohio River Valley in present-day West Virginia in the mid-eighteenth century where they formed their own distinct identity. Their villages were increasingly an amalgamation of Seneca, Wyandot, Shawnee, Conestoga, and Delaware evacuees. By 1774, the Mingos acted independently of the Iroquois, frequently fighting white settlers while the Six Nations officially advocated peace. Their presence in central and eastern Ohio throughout the 1760s and 1780s especially conflicted with hordes of white settlers who vied with them for control of the region. The Mingos were led by Chief Logan in a series of battles. Despite some pockets of resistance, the Mingos were crushed, and the surviving members of the group mixed with the larger Shawnee and Miami peoples.
By 1830, the Mingos were flourishing in western Ohio improving their farms and establishing schools. Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of that same year, however, forced the Mingos and all natives in Ohio to sell their lands and leave. The United States finally defeated the Mingo nation in 1831 and subsequently forced them to vacate to Kansas in 1832. Upon their removal to Kansas, the Mingos were joined by Seneca bands and both tribes shared the Neosho Reservation there. The tribe moved yet again in 1869 after the American Civil War from the reservation to the southern part of the Neosho tract in present-day Ottawa County, Oklahoma. Today, the tribe numbers over twenty-four hundred members and continues to maintain cultural and religious ties to the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Language
The Mingo language (native name: Unyææshæötká') is a Northern Iroquoian language of eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. It is a polysynthetic language with extremely complex verb usage, closely related to Seneca, Onondaga and Cayuga. There has been increasing interest in recent years, especially among Mingo descendants, in revitalizing the language.
Placenames
Several places in the United States bear the name of the Mingos in their titles, especially in areas once settled by the tribe.
- Mingo, Jasper County, Iowa
- Mingo, Thomas County, Kansas
- Mingo, Tishomingo County, Mississippi
- Mingo, Stoddard County, Missouri
- Mingo, Sampson County, North Carolina
- Mingo, Champaign County, Ohio
- Mingo, Tulsa County, Oklahoma
- Mingo, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
- Mingo, Denton County, Texas
- Mingo, Randolph County, West Virginia
- Mingo County, West Virginia
- Mingo Junction, Jefferson County, Ohio
- Mingo Magisterial District, Randolph County, West Virginia
- Mingo Springs, Franklin County, Maine
- Mingoville, Centre County, Pennsylvania
- Upper Mingo, Randolph County, West Virginia
- Village of Mingo, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Others named Mingo
Mingo (or Minko) is also the title of a Chickasaw chief. Black Mingo Creek in coastal South Carolina (near Indiantown) is named for the Chickasaws, as it was sort of a hunting reserve for the chief.
See also Minqua.
Links
- West Virginia Mingo Alphabet & Dictionary
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