sachem

• How if a sachem were to do something bad they would be cast out. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Indian females never go before a man: they never walk in front in the path, or cross in front of the place where a sachem is sitting. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
• Perhaps, she said, the sachem was pressured into the sale by the settlers, who needed more land to accommodate their growing ranks. —  Boston.com Most Popular
• This sachem was never a friend to the English, and he early sent to Plymouth a bundle of arrows bound in a rattle-snake's skin as a war challenge. —  Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1
• His parents often recurred to the incident, and charged their son never to forget it The advice of the sachem was indeed most valuable. —  Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3

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