Editing Logan (Iroquois leader) (section)

==Identity debate==
Scholars agree that Logan was a son of Chief [[Shikellamy]], an important diplomat for the [[Iroquois Confederacy|Haudenosaunee Confederacy]]. But, as [[anthropologist]] [[Anthony F. C. Wallace]] has written, "Which of Shikellamy's sons was Logan the orator has been a matter of dispute."<ref>Wallace, ''Jefferson and the Indians'', 343.</ref> Logan the orator has been variously identified as ''Tah-gah-jute,'' ''Tachnechdorus'' (also spelled "Tachnedorus" and "Taghneghdoarus"), ''Soyechtowa'', ''Tocanioadorogon,'' the "Great Mingo",<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Edmunds |first1=R. David |title=Heron Who Waits at the Speleawee-thepee: The Ohio River and the Shawnee World |journal=The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society |date=1993 |volume=91 |issue=3 |pages=249–259 |jstor=23382663 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23382663 |issn=0023-0243}}</ref> James Logan, and John Logan.

The name "Tah-gah-jute" was popularized in an 1851 book by [[Brantz Mayer]] entitled ''Tah-gah-jute: or Logan and Cresap''. However, historian [[Francis Jennings]] wrote that Mayer's book was "erroneous from the first word of the title." He identified Logan as James Logan, also known as ''Soyechtowa'' and ''Tocanioadorogon.''<ref name="Jennings">Jennings, "James Logan".</ref> Historians who agree that Logan the orator was not named "Tah-gah-jute" sometimes identify him as ''Tachnechdorus.'' But Jennings identifies Tachnechdorus as Logan the orator's older brother.

[[File:Oneida Chieftain Shikellamy by Anonymous.jpg|thumb|right|Oneida Chief Shikellamy]]
Logan's father Chief Shikellamy, who was [[Oneida tribe|Oneida]], worked closely with Pennsylvania official [[James Logan (statesman)|James Logan]] to maintain the [[Covenant Chain]] relationship with the [[Province of Pennsylvania|colony of Pennsylvania]]. Following a prevailing Native American practice, the young man who would become Logan the Mingo took the name "James Logan" out of admiration for his father's friend.<ref name="Jennings" />

With the disruption of warfare, disease, and encroachment, some [[Seneca people|Seneca]], [[Susquehannock]], and [[Cayuga people|Cayuga]] among the Haudenosaunee migrated to the [[Ohio Country]], as did [[Lenape]]. Joining in a process of [[ethnogenesis]], they became known as the [[Mingo]] tribe. Logan the Mingo is usually identified as a Mingo "chief", but historian [[Richard White (historian)|Richard White]] has written that "He was not a chief. [[Guyasuta|Kayashuta]] and [[White Mingo]] were the Mingo chiefs. Logan was merely a war leader."<ref>White, ''Middle Ground'', 358.</ref> The Haudenosaunee and other Native American tribes tended to have peace chiefs and war chiefs, or leaders. Like his father, Logan generally maintained friendly relationships with white settlers who were moving from eastern Pennsylvania and [[Virginia]] into the Ohio Country: the region that is now [[Ohio]], [[West Virginia]], [[Kentucky]], and western Pennsylvania.