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34:Paramount chief of certain North American tribes
1193:"Governor presents Sachem to Jane Blaffer Owen"
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58:Statue of Daniel Nimham, a sachem of the
1055:. Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre.
1014:A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe
1012:Nichols, John, and Earl Nyholm. (1995).
524:The "great chief" (Southern New England
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753:(4th ed.). Houghton Mifflin. 2000.
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