DCHP-3

second chief

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the second-in-command of an Indian band.

See: second

Quotations

1836
Peter Jones, otherwise Kahkewaquionaby, a half-caste Indian, is the second chief and religious teacher. . . .
1862
Mas-ke-pe-toon, the head chief, set before us a kettle full of the choicest flesh. O-nah-tah-me-nah-oos, his second, placed his tent at our service.
1962
To the traders, and later to the Canadian Government, a second chief was a man who, in return for emoluments and enhancement of power, would assume responsibility for the probity, from the White man's viewpoint, of his fellows.