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Sachem

noun

A political leader (especially of Tammany Hall).

A chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief). Synonym: sagamore.

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"Sachem" Quotes from Famous Books

... When you have gone a mile up that one, leave it, and strike through the woods, going towards the north. Another mile will bring you to a village of the Chickahominies upon the Pamunkey.[1] They are at odds with Governor and Council, and they will hide you. Moreover, I once did their sachem a service, and they ...

— Prisoners of Hope - A Tale of Colonial Virginia • Mary Johnston

... woman's room above, and taking down a long Indian pipe, filled it with tobacco, and lit it. This having been accomplished, he took his seat on a sort of wicker-work bench, just outside of the door, and began to smoke with all the gravity and seriousness of a Sachem of the Delawares. ...

— The Last of the Foresters • John Esten Cooke

... close of the year, the American Government's attempt to remove the Seminole Indians from their hunting grounds in Florida resulted in a sanguinary Indian war. Micanopy the Seminole Sachem and Osceola were the Indian leaders. Osceola opened hostilities with a master stroke. On December 28, he surprised General Wiley Thompson at Fort King. Thompson had wantonly laid Osceola in chains some time before. Now Osceola scalped his enemy with his own hands. On the same day, ...

— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson

... town of the Winnebagoes, he found a queen presiding over the tribe, instead of a sachem. He adds, that, in some tribes, the descent is given to the female line in preference to the male, that is, a sister's son will succeed to the authority, rather than a brother's son. The position of this Winnebago queen reminded ...

— At Home And Abroad - Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Words linked to "Sachem" : sagamore, politician, political leader, pol, Indian chieftain, politico, Indian chief