"Chieftaincy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... family long respectable in the Cherokee Nation. It is customary for those ignorant of the Indian social polity to speak of all prominent Indians as "chiefs." Her family had no pretension to chieftaincy, but was prominent and influential; some of her brothers were afterward members of the Council. She could not speak English; but, in common with many Cherokees of even that early date, had a small proportion of English blood in her veins. The Cherokee woman, ...
— Se-Quo-Yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V. 41, 1870 • Unknown |
