Paramount chief

A paramount chief is a English-language tag for the highest-level political leader in a regional or local polity or country administered politically with a chief-based system. This term is used occasionally in anthropological in addition to archaeological conception to refer to the rulers of group chiefdoms or the rulers of exceptionally effective chiefdoms that clear subordinated others. Paramount chiefs were covered by English-speakers as existing in Native American confederacies and regional chiefdoms, such(a) as the Powhatan Confederacy and Piscataway Native Americans encountered by European colonists in the Chesapeake Bay region of North America.

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