Sachem

Word SACHEM
Character 6
Hyphenation sa chem
Pronunciations /ˈsatʃəm/

Definitions and meanings of "Sachem"

What do we mean by sachem?

A chief of a Native American tribe or confederation, especially an Algonquian chief. noun

A member of the ruling council of the Iroquois confederacy. noun

A high official of the Tammany Society, a political organization in New York City. noun

An American hesperiid butterfly, Hylephila campestris, which occurs throughout the eastern two thirds of the United States. Its larvæ feed on grasses. It was formerly known under the specific name of huron, which probably gave rise to the popular name of sachem. noun

A chief among some tribes of American Indians; a sagamore. noun

One of a body of high officials in the Tammany Society of New York city. The sachems proper number twelve, and the head of the society is styled grand sachem. noun

A chief of a tribe of the American Indians; a sagamore. noun

A chief of a tribe of the American Natives; a sagamore. noun

A chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief) noun

A political leader (especially of Tammany Hall) noun

The chief of a Native American tribe; a sagamore.

A leader in the Tammany Hall society.

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The word "sachem" in example sentences

The civil head of a clan was a "sachem"; the military heads were "chiefs." ❋ John Bach McMaster (1892)

Its official head was the "sachem," whose functions were of a civil nature. ❋ John Fiske (1871)

Mr. Morgan (in his "League of the Iroquois," page 68,) states that to the last-named chief, or "sachem," the duty of watching the door was assigned, and that "they gave him a sub-sachem, or assistant, to enable him to execute this trust." ❋ Horatio Hale (1856)

All the while, the Wampanoag, including their "sachem," or leader, Massasoit, were observing these sickly looking visitors, frail from hunger and disease, knowing they could wipe them out with one fell swoop. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Ah! Yuagh!" called the sachem, and two young men stepped forward, toe on the line, glanced each at a framed picture, drew up an arm, and, "Whut-t-t t-e-e-p," whined two knives that flittered through the light and struck quivering, one with its cool kiss on McElroy's cheek, the other just in the edge of the slab at De Courtenay's shoulder. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

That Algonquin word "sachem," so seldom used, so difficult of pronunciation by the Iroquois, was never employed to designate a councilor in council; there they used the title, Roy-a-neh, and to that title had I answered the belt of the Iroquois, in the name of Kayanehenh-Kowa, the Great Peace. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Finally, this celebrated sachem, Longboard, held a secret council among the captives, and instructed them all to take arms and advance with the British Indians, and use their influence to lead them to a place where they might be captured, and they with the rest, which they successfully effected, and were re-captured by the Americans. ❋ Elias Johnson (N/A)

Some sachem would sadly sketch the smiling scenes of health and happiness in the days before the pale-face came to wrest from the Indians their land, the gift of the Great Spirit. ❋ Ethel T. Raymond (N/A)

As the little squadron from Communipaw drew near to the shores of Manna-hata, a sachem at the head of a band of warriors appeared to oppose their landing. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

A wise old sachem, hideously painted, drew a line on the ground at thirty feet, facing the central fire, and with a bony finger picked out ❋ Unknown (N/A)

In 1646 the Indian sachem Tacharew granted the land to Adrian Von der Donck, the first lawyer of New Netherland. ❋ Charles Gilbert Hine (N/A)

From the year 1661, when Wamsetta, chief sachem of Pokanokett, made the original conveyance of the territory to Capt. Thomas Willett, representing the town of Rehoboth, until the close of the last war between this country and Great Britain, is a period rich in annals of men and deeds, whose records live on musty parchments and crumbling gravestones. ❋ Various (N/A)

A Seneca sachem of the highest class, he was born at the Indian village of Ga-no-wau-ges, near Avon, about the year 1735, and died at Onondaga in 1815, where he happened to be on one of his pastoral visits. ❋ Elias Johnson (N/A)

This violated the Indian tradition of giving weary travelers a break before conducting business, but the sachem was indulgent. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

He talked Tanaghrisson into sending three men to spy on the Forks, and the Delaware sachem Shingas into sending a party toward the Monongahela, “to bring us news, in case any French should come.” ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

He thanked the sachem in the “most suitable manner,” but he really had to hurry along on his journey. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

The sachem “shook hands with us, and told us to go and fight like men.” ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

Iroquois probably Seneca sachem, ca. 1860, photographer unknown. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

With a novelist's flair, he conveys the experiences of ordinary people pitted against powerful and unpredictable nature: "Unable to stop his fall, the sachem slid toward a hundred-foot cliff over jagged rocks, saved only when a strap on his pack snagged a sapling, leaving him dangling and badly shaken." ❋ Alan Taylor (2012)

Metacomet, whom the English called King Philip, was the sachem of the Wampanoag in the 1670s when things came to a head. ❋ Norman MacAfee (2011)

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