chieftainess

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a female Indian chief.

Quotations

1837

. . . they . . . call me the white or fair English Chieftainess (ogima-quay).

1899

The next morning Lali . . . the chieftainess of a portion of her father's tribe . . . was introduced . . . as Mrs. Frank Armour.

1942

A squaw with a marriage certificate in her hand is apt to become heap big chieftainess.