Sachem/Sagamos/Sagamore in a casino?
Welcome to West Newton Massachusetts
Your question was
What is the difference between Sachem and Sagamore
member at mohegan sun?
Please remember that different tribes have different
language.
For instance all New England tribes were Matriarch
however now some northern tribes are not.
I am not sure what the Mohegan Casino has to do with
this question however, here’s thinking that they must have the same question
and answer on their website?
This was asked on my discontinued site at
Sachem/Sagamos/Sagamore
02/26/2009
so I will reprint here then add an answer on this
posting site.
From time to time I need to correct things being told
as the truth over the internet.
A Sachem in the Pequot/Mohegan and other New England
tribes is loosely translated to as or referred to as a king by the Europeans
after first contact.
A Sagamos like in the Penobscot and Narragansett
people that came from the Terrytoons or tribes of the north are also known as
their leaders, this group of people are not of a Matriarch society and came
down from Canada centuries ago, some even came down a few years ago.
I am guessing that is why their leaders always wear a
Plains Indian head dress when in front of cameras?
A Sagamore is a sub chief or anyone within a true New
England tribe that is given a position of reasonability by their Sachem and or
Head Clan Mother.
They maintains that sub chief (Sagamore) title for as
long as the job is being performed as in the title war chief or public
relations chief!
Because the New England tribes before first contact
were a matriarch people men and women could and do hold this position of
authority as needed.
In order to correctly study and understand the true
leaders of American native people one must study them long before our language
was changed to suit outsiders since the middle of the 1980's.
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