You know you are born for chieftainship, that is a hereditary right.    From Wordnik.com.  [IOL: News] Reference

Some kind of chieftainship seems coeval with the first advance from the state of separate wandering families to that of a nomadic tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library] Reference

European eye, well-defined marks of his chieftainship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference

The chieftainship has been in our family for many generations past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians] Reference

The chieftainship naturally falls to one who has attained the rank of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference

Governor Ramsey was imprudent enough to break him of his chieftainship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

The government took away his chieftainship after the Defiance Campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freedom for his people was the only reward Baba sought] Reference

Pretoria plan and, of course, were the authority over and above chieftainship.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa: The Peasants Revolt] Reference

This involvement led to his dismissal from the chieftainship by the government.    From Wordnik.com.  [10. SACTU AND THE CONGRESS ALLIANCE] Reference

My contention has always been that I am not a regent, chieftainship is my birthright.    From Wordnik.com.  [African National Congress Parliamentary Caucus] Reference

But there was no hereditary chieftainship or even an undivided rule within a rancheria.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Defiant Agents] Reference

When his father died, Mandela became the chief's ward and was groomed for the chieftainship.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

They intimated to him that in all probability he would soon be elevated to the chieftainship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas] Reference

"Ain't you figurin 'ter take it on, then -- this boss chieftainship that they've offered you?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Kiddie the Scout] Reference

He was regarded by the tribe as heir to the chieftainship, and the government had other plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eliminating all Opposition] Reference

Its importance, however, dates from the time of Rao Surjan, who succeeded to the chieftainship in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

It is in this way that the chieftainship is continually kept in a family dynasties in the female line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference

So Ralph asserted his chieftainship and could not have chosen a better way if he had thought for days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Flies]

In some areas a paramount chieftaincy was not recognized; and in others chieftainship itself was unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa: The Peasants Revolt] Reference

Mangope that if he did not obey the order to remove his people from the farm he would lose his chieftainship.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He was the son of an ancient line, who had preserved the chieftainship in their family from the remotest times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference

In Lesotho, all land is owned by the people and allocated by and through the traditional structure of chieftainship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water profile of Lesotho] Reference

As a result of Luthuli\'s leadership in Natal, the government demanded that he resign from the ANC or from chieftainship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Revolutionary Alliance in South Africa] Reference

Zondwa Mtirara told the court he was bitter at being fired from the TDF and stripped of his chieftainship during March-June.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

When he was called upon by the Government to choose between his chieftainship and the African National Congress, he chose the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Portrait of Chief Albert Lutuli ANC President 1952-1967] Reference

Mahlangu had appointed in October 2001 to investigate the contestation by various groups of the chieftainship of the tribe at.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

All three are drawn from the Tembu Royal House, share a common grandfather, and were groomed for chieftainship by the same tutor.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa: The Peasants Revolt] Reference

The union's main weakness, Ballinger told Africans in Cape Town, was to have set up a sort of chieftainship and embark on strikes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 16] Reference

The policy recognises only the positions of kingship, chieftainship and headmanship within the institution of traditional leadership.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

All down the table on either side sat men with strong, determined faces, whose names bespoke the chieftainship of many a powerful family.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tory Maid] Reference

If the Chiefs are not represented in this Assembly, then this House must pass a resolution abolishing the principle of chieftainship ... '.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa: The Peasants Revolt] Reference

But, when pressured by the apartheid regime to leave the ANC, he instead left the chieftainship and later assumed the leadership of the ANC.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address at the second Matthew Goniwe Annual Lecture] Reference

Conservatism is the lifeblood of the chieftainship system, and change threatens the positions of power that the Chiefs and the government enjoy.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa: The Peasants Revolt] Reference

Chiefs 'sons, the heirs to chieftainship, were trained at the homes of the White missionaries, many living with them as members of their families.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa: The Peasants Revolt] Reference

In a letter to the UDM's national chairman he asked to be released from his parliamentary duties to "attend to matters of the Tembu chieftainship".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Being numerically small they form an oligarchy in which, with few exceptions, each man holds rank in a chieftainship of which there are three grades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference