Before Younaguska died he assembled his people and publicly willed the chieftainship to his clerk, friend and adopted son, W.
Nimrod Jarrett Smith, an intelligent and educated member of the tribe, was elected by popular vote to the chieftainship for the term of four years, and has since been re-elected.
In South America also the magicians or medicine-men seem to have been on the highroad to chieftainship or kingship.
Bannock chieftainship was nonhereditary and was assigned by general agreement to a man noted for wisdom and courage.
Wind River Shoshone informants showed more confusion over chieftainship and patterns of leadership, in general, than on any other subject.
The chieftainship of a Highland clan, for example, followed the order of Primogeniture.
This is to set aside the infant heir altogether, and confer the chieftainship on the eldest surviving male of the first generation.
In reward Sir Garnet Wolseley advanced him to the most important chieftainship in Zululand, which he hopes to make a stepping-stone to the vacant throne.
Therefore I give to you the chieftainship over those who remain of the Amakoba and over all of the Amangwane blood whom you can gather.
The fundamental idea of this chieftainship would lie in the possession of the powers of government, patriarchally organized, by lineal descent, and traced up to the point which was the recognised fountain-head of the traditions of the race.
The chieftainship of Agamemnon has been traced and identified by means of his Achæan connection, without any assistance from local or territorial names connected with the abode of his family.
In none of these cases, however, have we the same right to assume in limine the character of chieftainship by known lineage from an Hellenic family, as in the case of the Achæans.
A year or two ago I heard that her father Nala was dead, and that she had succeeded to the chieftainship of both tribes, which she ruled with great justice and firmness.
It was Mo-sar's opinion that he might consider himself fortunate were he allowed to remain in peaceful occupation of his chieftainship at Tu-lur, nor was Mo-sar wrong in his deductions.
They visited for the first time the island stronghold of Kapiti, and found it in the possession of a section of the Ngati-Apa people, under the chieftainship of two men named Potau and Kotuku.
This settlement was under the chieftainship of Toringa and Tamati Panau, the latter being the father of the chief Kerei te Panau,[64] who until recently lived at Awapuni.
He was the chief of an ancient family of his tribe, who had preserved the line of chieftainshipunbroken from a remote time, and he consequently cherished a pride of ancestry.
Paup-Puk-Keewiss told him to confer the chieftainship on his friend, who, he said, would remain while he went on his travels.
In course of time he was appointed by the then king of the Akasava to the chieftainship of the village of Mi-lanti, and the city of the Akasava breathed a sigh of relief to see his canoe go round the bend of the river out of sight.
The same right of nobility andchieftainship was preserved for the women, just as for the men.
Even if they were the sons of chiefs, they did not succeed to the nobility or chieftainship of the parents, nor to their privileges, but they remained and were reckoned as plebeians and in the number and rank of the other timaguas.
Now his sole claim to chieftainship lay in his power to defend the title.
His ancestors had, from the earliest times, held the principal chieftainship in lake Superior.
He looked as if he held the right of succession to the paramount chieftainship of Kafirland.
If I had promised his chieftainship a glass of grog and an old hat, he would have come trundling up here with an alacrity that would surprise you.
Chieftainship was hereditary in the male line, but did not necessarily pass from father to son; the usual heir would seem to have been the eldest surviving brother, and next to him one of the sons.
Though much given to sulking, on the whole, he behaved so well that, the Expedition ended, I recommended him to his Highness the Viceroy for appointment to the chieftainship of his tribe, and the usual yearly subsidy.
Tamahu was dead, and this occurred in the first year of my chieftainship of the Azjar.
True to my promise, when I assumed the chieftainship of the Azjar, I effected a friendly alliance with the Kel-Oui, and endeavoured to seek out Zohra.
