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second chief Hist. 
the second-in-command of an Indian band.
See also: second
- 1836 (1923) Peter Jones, otherwise Kahkewaquionaby, a half-caste Indian, is the second chief and religious teacher. . . .
- 1862 (1888) Mas-ke-pe-toon, the head chief, set before us a kettle full of the choicest flesh. O-nah-tah-me-nah-oos, his second, placed his tent at our service.
- 1962 To the traders, and later to the Canadian Government, a second chief was a man who, in return for emoluments and enhancement of power, would assume responsibility for the probity, from the White man's viewpoint, of his fellows.
- 1836 (1923) Peter Jones, otherwise Kahkewaquionaby, a half-caste Indian, is the second chief and religious teacher. . . .