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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an industrious leader of a band of Indian hunters, rewarded with coat, tall hat, trousers, and flag, as symbols of headship.

See: chief

Quotations

1966

The trading chief of the Mountain Indians got all kinds of stuff from the trader and he made a feast. In those days all the trading chiefs got feasts from the Hudson's Bay.