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- Dictionarysachem/ˈseɪtʃəm/
noun
- 1. (among some North American Indian peoples) a chief.
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- Sachem
Paramount chief of certain North American tribes
Sachems and sagamores are paramount chiefs among the Algonquians or other Native American tribes of northeastern North America, including the Iroquois. The two words are anglicizations of cognate terms (c. 1622) from different Eastern Algonquian languages. Some sources indicate the sagamore was a lesser chief elected by a single band, while the sachem was the head or representative elected by a tr... Wikipedia
