Piomingo

Hopayi’ Minko’ (often written as Piomingo or Piominko; (The word or suffix, "-minko; -mingo" was a title of respect and leadership to the Chickasaw.) As a young child, he was raised for a time among the Cherokee allies of his tribe.

Piomingo's interest in friendship with the United States government dates back to the early 1780s when Piomingo, following the January 11, 1781, Chickasaw attack on the Cumberland district, negotiated a treaty of peace and friendship between the Chickasaw and the state of Virginia. This treaty was signed with Col. James Robertson on behalf of the colonists at French Lick. (Piomingo concluded: "Peace is Now Settled...) I was the first to propose it... & AM in hope No more Blood [may be] Shed by Either party."

Friendship with Washington Piomingo strove to become closer to the expanding United States and its technological advances, sometimes to the detriment of relationships with other Chickasaw chiefs and allied Native American tribes such as the Choctaw and Cherokee. There is a statue of Piomingo in Tupelo, Mississippi, in a region close to the historic Chickasaw settlements.

His likeness was reported to possibly be the figurehead that adorned the late eighteenth-century merchant vessel, the US William Penn, at its launching.