Logan (Iroquois leader)
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Logan the Orator 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 co
Logan statue, Logan, West Virginia
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Monument to Logan at the Logan Elm State Memorial in Pickaway County, Ohio. The text of "Logan's Lament" is inscribed on the other side of the monument.
Clipper ship Logan
Yellow Creek massacre
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The Yellow Creek massacre was a killing of several Mingo Indians by Virginian settlers on April 30, 1774. The massacre occurred across from the mouth of the Yellow Creek on the upper Ohio River in the
Logan (Iroquois leader)
…Cayuga, Lenape and other League peoples in Ohio. He took revenge for family members killed by Virginian long knives in 1774 in what is known as the Yellow Creek Massacre. His actions against settlers on the frontier helped spark Dunmore's War later that year. Logan became known for a speech, later known as Logan's Lament…
Illustration from Frost, Pictorial History of Indian Wars (1873)
Logan's Lament