DCHP-1 Online
hyas tyee [< Chinook Jargon hyas big and tyee chief, king] Pacific Coast 
a great or mighty chief; an important person.
- 1860 Seven hyas tyhees, of the Hyder tribe of Northern Indians, accompanied by their families, waited upon Governor Douglas at the Government House, on Saturday last.
- 1866 Having handed my letters of introduction . . . to the chief trader, I was presented to the chiefs as a Hyas tyee (great chief), one of "King George's" men.
- 1937 . . . he landed on a bar . . . at a place he called Shakesville, after old Shakes, the hyas tyee of the Stikines.
- 1956 Tom Hastie told me his employer, Col. Ebey, was a hyass tyee (Mighty Chief).
- 1860 Seven hyas tyhees, of the Hyder tribe of Northern Indians, accompanied by their families, waited upon Governor Douglas at the Government House, on Saturday last.