Mingo
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The Mingo are a grouping of Haudenosaunee, primarily Seneca and Cayuga, who migrated west from New York to the Ohio Country in the mid-18th century, and their descendants. Some Susquehannock people we
Statue of Chief Logan, a notable Mingo leader, in Logan, West Virginia
Statue of the Mingo, Greetings to Wayfarers, in Wheeling, West Virginia
Statue of Mingo, Greetings to Wayfarers, in Wheeling, West Virginia
Pontiac's War
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Pontiac's War was launched in 1763 by a confederation of Native Americans who were dissatisfied with British rule in the Great Lakes region following the French and Indian War. Warriors from numerous
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…Ohio River Valley since the late 17th century, these peoples in Ohio often had to act independently due to their unique geopolitical situation. When Pontiac's Rebellion broke out in 1763 against the British at the end of the French and Indian War, many Mingo joined with other nations in an attempt to drive the British…
In a famous council on April 27, 1763, Pontiac urged listeners to rise up against the British (19th century engraving by Alfred Bobbett)
The policies of General Jeffery Amherst, a British hero of the Seven Years' War, helped to provoke Pontiac's War (Portrait of Jeffery Amherst by Joshua Reynolds, 1765).
Pontiac takes up the war hatchet
Massacre of the Indians at Lancaster by the Paxton Boys in 1763, a historically inaccurate lithograph published in John Wimer's 1841 Events in Indian History