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sagamore

NOUN
  1. a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief)

How To Use sagamore In A Sentence

  • Let them come, if they like, be It'sagamore , sachem, or pow - wow .
  • As for sagamore Membertou and other chiefs who came from time to time, they sat at table, eating and drinking like ourselves. Champlain's Dream
  • To some observers there seemed something unpleasantly appropriate about the fact that his recreational passion at Sagamore Hill that summer of 1903 was the so-called point-to-point “obstacle walk,” the one rule, the only rule, being that the participant must go up and over, or through, every obstacle, never around it. The Path Between the Seas
  • He talked with the sagamore Anadabijou about their values and beliefs, and his judgments were complex. Champlain's Dream
  • 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 Champlain's Dream
  • At last the Saturday came , and the WEEKLY SAGAMORE arrived.
  • 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.” Champlain's Dream
  • More Indians arrived, a band of thirty and then the sagamore Bessabez, a leading presence in the region. Champlain's Dream
  • 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. Champlain's Dream
  • 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. Archive 2009-11-22
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