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noun a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief)
originFrom an Algonquian language; compare Abenaki sôgmô, sôgemô (“chief”), Mi'kmaq saqamaw (“chief”), and Penobscot sagama, sagema, sagemo, sangemo (“chief”), all ultimately from Proto-Algonquian *sa·kima·wa (“male chief”). Doublet of sachem.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0