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Federal prosecutors allege that Martinez was the victor of a violent internal power struggle that ensued when longtime OC gang chieftain Peter Ojeda died in federal prison, leaving a leadership vacuum within the OC faction of the Mexican Mafia.
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Sean Emery, Oc Register, 30 Dec. 2025
This defensive pattern was already apparent in a sixteenth-century Portuguese account of a battle in Guinea between the slaver state of Cassanga (allied to the Portuguese) and the followers of a local chieftain, King Bambara.
—Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
The season 2 finale, which premiered in September 2022, killed off Spear himself after a battle with a Viking chieftain.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Oct. 2025
The moai statues were built in honor of chieftains and other important people who had died.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Oct. 2025
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Sean Emery, Oc Register, 30 Dec. 2025
This defensive pattern was already apparent in a sixteenth-century Portuguese account of a battle in Guinea between the slaver state of Cassanga (allied to the Portuguese) and the followers of a local chieftain, King Bambara.
—Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
The season 2 finale, which premiered in September 2022, killed off Spear himself after a battle with a Viking chieftain.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Oct. 2025
The moai statues were built in honor of chieftains and other important people who had died.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Chieftain.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chieftain. Accessed 7 Jan. 2026.
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