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4 total sentences available.
Planted with their broad ends on the deck, a circle of these slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved to and fro like the top-knot on some old Pottowottamie Sachem’s head.
Source: wiktionary
If a sachem was too harsh, a tribesman might leave and join another tribe.
Source: wiktionary
The society elects annually thirteen sachems, which represent the original thirteen States. […] The other officers of the society are a Secretary, Treasurer, Sagamore, and Wiskinkie.
Source: wiktionary
Aboriginal titles were adopted and the head of each tribe was called a sachem. […] Its proprietor, Abraham Martling, was elected a sachem on several occasions and members of Tammany were often called Martling Men.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include ardri, baron, bey, big gun, big man.
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