The Mingo people (sometimes called the Ohio Seneca), lived in Ohio near Steubenville and Columbus. The Indian strategy had been for the Shawnee under Chief Cornstalk to march up the Kanawha / New River into Virginia, and to drive the settlers out. Being a much smaller tribe, the Mingo had been assigned the task of harassing the settlements in Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee in order to draw off militiamen from their campaign to attack the Shawnee. Logan, admittedly lusting for blood after the Yellow Creek Massacre, led his warriors into the Valleys of the Clinch and Holston. /* 728x15 link ad */ Mingo was a member of a prominent Wampanoag family. mingo tribe of ohio. The beating that the Shawnee received at Point Pleasant kept them peaceful during the first two years of the Revolution. It was during this hiatus that settlements in Kentucky gained a foothold, one which proved strong enough that when the Shawnee did regain their courage their attacks on the settlements in the Blue Grass proved to be ineffective. The statue and water fountain of the noble Chief Logan of the Mingo Tribe is pictured in front of the historic Coal House on Second Avenue in Williamson. Native American crafts,
