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noun
- 1. (among some North American Indian peoples) a chief.
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Sachems / ˈseɪtʃəmz / and sagamores / ˈsæɡəmɔːrz / 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.
1. : a North American Indian chief. especially : the chief of a confederation of the Algonquian tribes of the North Atlantic coast. 2. : a Tammany leader. sachemic. sā-ˈche-mik. sa- adjective. Examples of sachem in a Sentence.
noun. (among some North American Indians) the chief of a tribe. the chief of a confederation. a member of the governing body of the League of the Iroquois. one of the high officials in the Tammany Society. Slang. a political party leader. sachem. / seɪˈtʃɛmɪk; ˈseɪtʃəm; ˈseɪtʃə- / noun.
Jul 8, 2024 · Definitions of sachem. noun. a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief) synonyms: sagamore. see more. noun. a political leader (especially of Tammany Hall) see more.
May 29, 2018 · SACHEM, a term drawn from Algonkin speakers of the Northeast. Although English colonists in New England applied the term to most Indian leaders, the term truly applied to hereditary civil leaders as opposed to war leaders who acquired their status through prowess in combat.
n. 1. a. A chief of a Native American tribe or confederation, especially an Algonquian chief. b. A member of the ruling council of the Iroquois confederacy. 2. A high official of the Tammany Society, a political organization in New York City. [ Of Massachusett origin .]
A Sachem was a paramount chief among the Algonquins, but the term also referred to the leader of the New York City political machine Tammany Hall. Until 1951, both societies published the names of their newly elected members in the Columbia Daily Spectator, as well as in The New York Times on occasions.
