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Morris was informed that their council fire was still burning, and that their business might proceed, but instead of being carried on by the sachems, would be conducted by the women and warriors. Cornplanter being the principal war-chief, appeared on this occasion in their behalf. He said, "They had seen with regret the misconduct of the sachems; that they thought also the action of Mr.
The honor of being chief is hereditary, though for cause a chief may be deposed and another substituted; and the influence the chief possesses depends much more upon his talents and capacity to govern, than upon mere hereditary descent. To every village there is also a war-chief, and as to these are ascribed supernatural powers, their influence is unbounded.
There was an instant's silence; then in a murmur like the rush of the sea came back the voice of the multitude. "Tohomish! Tohomish! he is greatest!" "He is greatest," said Multnomah. But Tohomish, sitting there dejectedly, seemed neither to see nor hear. "To-morrow," said the war-chief, "while the sun is new, the chiefs will meet in council and the great talk shall be ended.
When we have learned to substitute Indian confederacy for Indian kingdom; Teuchtli, or head war-chief, sachem, and chief, for king, prince, and lord; Indian villages in the place of "great cities"; communal houses for "palaces," and democratic for monarchic institutions; together with a number of similar substitutions of appropriate for deceptive and improper terms, the Indian of the past and present will be presented understandingly, and placed in his true position in the scale of human advancement.
The Bat even declared that if he ever became a chief this policy of inaction would be followed by one more suited to pony-loving young men. Nothing having occurred, they returned before daylight to their own camp so to inform the war-chief. That day the Chis-chis-chash crowded around the barricade of the Yellow-Eyes, but were admitted only a few at a time.
Hundreds in that swarm had seen him before, when, as the adopted son of a great war-chief of the Miamis he had been at their side in many a wild foray along the border. "Wau-mee-nuk, the white chief," passed from lip to lip; and sullenly, slowly, reluctantly, the frenzied red circle fell back, as he pressed his rearing horse full against them.
You remember how, when a war-chief of the Western prairies was laid by his tribe in his grave, his horse was led to the spot in the funeral procession, and at the instant when the earth was cast upon the dead warrior's dust, an arrow reached the noble creature's heart, that in the land of souls the man should find his old friend again.
Among the more advanced tribes, confederacies existed, which represented the highest stage their governmental institutions had attained. In some of them, as in the Aztec confederacy, they had a principal war-chief, elected for life or during good behavior, who was the general commander of the military bands. His powers were those of a general, and necessarily arbitrary when in the field.
"Eloise," I whispered softly, forgetting at the awful moment that she possessed another name, "it has been voted that three of us perish by torture, but you are not in the list; you are named for a different fate. Is it still your wish that I fulfil the pledge?" As she glanced up, the old war-chief pointed directly toward her.
Save for the difference in his clothes, Annie-Many-Ponies thought that he much resembled that great little war-chief of the white people who rode ahead of his column in a picture hanging on the wall of the mission school.
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