trading chief Fur Trade DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
THIS ENTRY MAY CONTAIN OUTDATED INFORMATION, TERMS and EXAMPLES
an industrious leader of a band of Indian hunters, rewarded with coat, tall hat, trousers, and flag, as symbols of headship.
See also: chief
- 1966  The trading chief of the Mountain Indians got all kinds of stuff from the trader and he made a feast. In those days all the trading chiefs got feasts from the Hudson's Bay.