noun
definition
The chief of a Native American tribe; a sagamore.
definition
A leader in the Tammany Hall society.
Examples of sachem in a Sentence
August Belmont eventually attained the coveted eminence of Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society.
The Mohawks adopted him and elected him a sachem.
At the close of King Philip's War in 1676, Mount Hope Neck (which had been the seat of the vanquished sachem), with most of what is now the township of Bristol, was awarded to Plymouth Colony.
North-east of the Roman Catholic Cemetery, in the extreme eastern part of the city, is a monument to Miantonomo, a sachem of the Narraganset tribe of Indians, who was put to death here.