- A
tribal chief, chieftain, or
headman is a
leader of a
tribal society or of a chiefdom.
There is no
definition for "tribe". The
concept of
tribe is a broadly...
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independence briefly. The Mizo
Union advocated for
abolishing chieftainship in Mizoram. The
chieftainships of
Mizoram were
eventually disbanded with the ****am-Lushai...
- Tuwharetoa, a Māori
tribe in the
central North Island – a
hereditary chieftainship which still has
great influence. In the 1850s the Māori King Movement...
- into the 19th century. The
crown completely replaced the
hereditary chieftainships with
appointed governorships in the
entire Irrawaddy valley and greatly...
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Chief (Kgoshi)
Mamphoku Makgoba was a
Lobedu (Bakgalaka )
Chief who
ruled Makgobaskloof (often
misspelled Makgoebaskloof) in the Soutpansberg,
former Northern...
- into the 19th century. The
crown completely replaced the
hereditary chieftainships with
appointed governorships in the
entire Irrawaddy valley and greatly...
- into
small bands of a few families,
grouped into
larger tribes and
chieftainships. The Innu are the
inhabitants of an area they
refer to as Nit****inan...
-
affairs during colonial times. The
government abolished the
system of
chieftainships in 1961,
although Marealle, anti****ting this, had
voluntarily left...
- John
Jumper (c.1820 –
September 21, 1896) or
Heneha Mekko, was Prin****l
Chief of the
Seminole Nation from 1849 to 1865, and
again from 1882 to 1885. He...
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Tetinchoua was
chief of the
Miami people in the 17th century.
Nicolas Perrot, a
French traveler, met him in
Chicago in 1671. He said
Tetinchoua was "the...
