sachem

How To Use sachem In A Sentence

• In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms. Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
• Let them come, if they like, be It'sagamore , sachem, or pow - wow .
• The tribe comprised several villages, each with its own local chief, or sachem.
• Washington sent a wampum belt and speech to the sachems of the Tuscaroras in August, “to assure you of our real friendship and love—and to confirm & strengthen that chain of friendship, which has subsisted between us for so many ages past.” George Washington’s First War
• Among the Five Nations or League of the Iroquois, the sachem was a formally recognized social role, which was an elected position and, more significantly, limited to men.
• There came a moment of extraordinary professional solidarity from the sachems of journalism in response.
• Its official head was the "sachem," whose functions were of a civil nature. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
• The elder clan mothers in matrilineal Iroquois society had the power to choose the sachems, or peace chiefs, for each of their clans.
• The district leaders are were all the Sachems of Tammany Hall, and the members of Tammany were called the Tammany Braves, and they would parade around town with war paint on. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
• In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms. Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms