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1- Certain sachems were prohibited from selling land in 1763.

2- sachems of the Susquehannocks were also present.

3- The sachems were expelled and Tammany Hall continued to oppose Clinton.

4- Seneca men maintained the traditional title of War sachems within the Haudenosaunee.

5- His decisions could and were sometimes overruled by the sachems and clan matrons.

6- Mahican villages were governed by hereditary sachems advised by a council of clan elders.

7- The Indian sachems received the French in as kind a manner as before.

8- The Tammany Hall sachems agreed to meet with him on February 20, 1806.

9- The ONONDAGA sachems broke ties and had the power to veto decisions made by the others.

10- The members of the Grand Council of sachems were chosen by the mothers of each clan.

11- The League is embodied in the Grand Council, an assembly of fifty hereditary ” sachems “.

12- This circle of white wampum represents the seating plan of the fifty sachems of the Iroquois Confederate Council.

13- The death of the Narragansett sachems Miantonomi and Canonicus created a power vacuum leaving their tribal lands vulnerable.

14- sachems (leaders) supported widows and the poor, and families gave freely to the sick or elderly.

15- Uncas and two Pequot sachems closest to Canonchet’s rank among his captors executed him in Indian style.

16- Shortly after the battle four Wappinger Confederacy sachems arrived in the English settlement of Stamford to sue for peace.

17- He befriended the Lenape sachems (chiefs), convincing them to act as mediators between the English and other tribes.

18- This, coupled with the dishonourable loss of their sachems , demanded they set out to terrorize New France as never before.

19- Ultimately, many of the tribe became Christian, including the pow-wows (spiritual leaders) and sachems (political leaders).

20- The Circle of the Fifty sachems of the Covenant of the League of the Five Nations The original of this wampum record was made at the time of the Founding of the League and has been handed down through a line of Wampum Keepers until the present time.

21- Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors — the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems , and is written in the hearts of our people.

22- They hoped his reputation and experience with Native Americans would ensure successful negotiations, and he has appointed an agent of the company, to actually negotiate the deal with the sachems .

23- Realizing the danger of continuing to hold the sachems , he located the 13 surviving leaders of the 50 originally taken and returned with them to New France in October 1689.

24- Villages consisted of lodges called wigwams as well as long houses, and tribes were led by male or female elders known as sachems .

25- He traded and wintered in a largely Seneca village at the mouth of Lake Erie’s Cuyahoga River, today’s Cleveland, Ohio, learning Native American languages and customs so well that by 1746 he was one of fifty sachems on the Six Nations’ Onondaga Council.

26- European colonists when encountering sachems (whose sole authority was to negotiate land use between family groups so that over-hunting would not occur) erroneously believed they were encountering village or community headmen.

27- Gorton and others of Shawomet were summoned to appear in court in Boston to answer a complaint from two Indian sachems concerning some “unjust and injurious dealing” towards them.

28- Refusing to answer a summons following the complaints of two Indian sachems about being unfairly treated in a land transaction, Gorton and several of his followers were forcefully taken away to Massachusetts.

29- Chapter 12 of the “Complete Language Guide” preserves these teachings according to linguistic and cultural traditions, while Chapter 13 preserves the ancient graphical writing systems of the Eastern Algonquians, used by the sachems and shamans.

30- It was attended by the Iroquois sachems , Robert Morris, James Wadsworth (who represented the Federal Government), and Joseph Ellicott, who represented the Holland Land Company.

31- In 1636, the Narragansett sachems (leaders), Canonicus and Miantonomi, sold the land that became Providence to Roger Williams, a leader of English colonists.

32- European settlement in their territory did not begin until 1635, and in 1636 Roger Williams acquired land use rights from the Narragansett sachems .

33- In that battle, which became known as the “Great Swamp Massacre,” the Narragansett lost more than 600 people and 20 sachems .

34- The disease caused a complete restructuring of Wampanoag political systems, with many sachems gathering together previously strong villages to form new alliances.

35- These women gained power because their matrilineal clans held control over large plots of land and they had accrued enough status and power–not because they were the widows of former sachems .

36- sachems were bound to consult not only their own councilors within their tribe but also any of the “petty sachems,” or people of influence, in the region.

37- sachems were bound to consult not only their own councilors within their tribe but also any of the “petty sachems ,” or people of influence, in the region.

38- The Wampanoag were organized into a confederation, where a head sachem, or political leader, presided over a number of other sachems .

39- Women elders could approve selection of chiefs or sachems , although males had most of the political roles for relations with other bands and tribes, as well as warfare.

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