Or Opeka, a Shawnee sachem who shrewdly negotiated with the governor of Pennsylvania in 1710 to spare the lives of his people accused of killing colonists?

As the late Times food sachem Jonathan Gold wrote, it is “sneakily alcoholic.”

In the 1600s, they lived in 69 villages, each with a chief, or sachem, and a medicine man.

The sachems of the European Handball Federation were scandalized.

“They blatantly fooled the whole entire country about this land belonging to them,” said Larry Fisher, who has been working to revive the tribe since becoming its chief sachem in 2014, of the Mashpees.