Mekoche

The Mekoche, also spelled Mequachake and said to mean red earth, were one of the five divisions of the Algonquian-speaking Shawnee. By Shawnee tradition the tribe's healers were drawn from this patrilineal division. In the later eighteenth century their villages clustered on the upper Mad River in Ohio, the best known being Pigeon Town.

During the Northwest Indian War, Colonel Benjamin Logan's Kentucky militia burned thirteen Shawnee towns in October 1786, Pigeon Town among them, and killed the elderly chief Moluntha despite his surrender under the Treaty of Fort Finney. United States forces destroyed the remaining Mekoche villages in 1791, after which the division shared the wandering fate and later removals of the Shawnee.