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Indians; partly from what he received as a consideration for the difference between his full appointment and the half-pay, to which he is now restricted; and partly from the profits of a little traffick he drove in peltry, during his sachemship among the

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

Governor Stevens confirmed his sachemship, and Seattle became the protector and the good genius of the town.

The Log School-House on the Columbia Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

When thus installed his name was "taken away" and that of the sachemship was bestowed upon him.

Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Lewis H. Morgan 1849

For example, upon the demise of Go-ne-o-di'-yo, one of the eight Seneca sachems, his successor would be elected by the Turtle gens in which this sachemship was hereditary, and when raised up by the general council he would receive this name, in place of his own, as a part of the ceremony.

Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Lewis H. Morgan 1849

The name of each sachemship is also the personal name of each sachem while he holds the office each one in succession taking the name of his predecessor.

Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Lewis H. Morgan 1849

Whenever the grand council met to fill a vacancy in the sachemship of a tribe of any nation, it was his duty publicly to repeat to the new sachem their ancient laws and usages, and to unfold to him the structure and principles of the league, as recorded in the belts committed to his charge. [

Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia Ashbel Woodward

This sachem and the one before him were hereditary councillors of the To-do-do'-ho, who held the most illustrious sachemship.]

Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Lewis H. Morgan 1849