chiefhood

The legislature could not choose from the people at large, but was confined to a decision between rival claimants having an equal or nearly equal relation in the chiefhood to the throne.

Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen 1898

Would you do anything to deprive your only child, as well as yourself, of chiefhood?

Forty years a fur trader on the upper Missouri: the personal narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 1898