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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.
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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
Yep, the Earl of Mar is a Jacobite and by the next day wants every clan chieftain there to declare their allegiance (or lack thereof) to the Stewart cause.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 26 Sep. 2025
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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
Yep, the Earl of Mar is a Jacobite and by the next day wants every clan chieftain there to declare their allegiance (or lack thereof) to the Stewart cause.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Chieftain.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chieftain. Accessed 15 Dec. 2025.
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