Looks like I need to stand corrected. "Mingo" is probably more of an
early American English word for "chief" or "Native American". It is
said to derive from a Lenape [[aka Delaware) word. The Lenape are
an East Coast Algonquian family group. However Mingo Logan himself
was Oneida/Cayuga which were subdivisions of the Haudenosaunee [[aka
Iroquois aka Six Nations, based around the Finger Lakes in New York) group. Some things remain unclear to me about how the word "Mingo" originated and was and is used.
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