sagamore

IPA: sɑgˈɑmɔr

Synonym of sachem
A chief of one or several Native American tribe(s), especially of the Algonquians.
(informal, archaic) An eminent member of a group, or an eminent person in society.
(politics) A high-ranking officer of the Tammany Hall political organization responsible for taking care of its property.

Examples of "sagamore" in Sentences

At first light, the grand sagamore emerged from his lodge and ran shouting through the sleeping camp.
He talked with the sagamore Anadabijou about their values and beliefs, and his judgments were complex.
More Indians arrived, a band of thirty and then the sagamore Bessabez, a leading presence in the region.
As for sagamore Membertou and other chiefs who came from time to time, they sat at table, eating and drinking like ourselves.
He tried to persuade the sagamore that the Christian faith and the Catholic religion were more true and more universal, apparently with no success.62
After the Algonquin women finished their dance, a sagamore of the Algonquin, who was called Bessouat or Tessouat, rose and said: See how we rejoice in the victory we have won over our enemies.
On the coast of Maine, Champdoré also met a new generation of Indian leaders, in particular the Penobscot sagamore Asticou, “a man of weight and fine presence” who summered on Mount Desert Island.
In a subsequent mission for Governor William Bradford that summer, Squanto was captured by Wampanoag while gathering intelligence on the renegade sagamore, Corbitant, at the village of Nemasket site of present-day Middleborough, Massachusetts.
The woman of Panounias talked with him, and the sagamore “made a speech, in which he expressed pleasure at seeing us, desired to have an alliance with us,” and promised to send word to Indian leaders named Marchin and Sasinou, whom he called “chief of the Kennebec.”