headmen in English

noun
1
the chief or leader of a community or tribe.
This is where community leaders such chiefs, headmen and indeed agricultural extension officers need to step in and carry out a massive education campaign.
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1. At the lowest level were the village headmen.

2. Four headmen were allowed to each band instead of three.

3. We read a story about some Indian headmen.

4. Hence, village headmen (often men) control all the banks' work

5. 34 These were the heads of the paternal houses of the Levites by their line of descent, headmen.

6. When a warrant was issued for his arrest, the Hue and Cry listed among his friends four headmen and an ex-headman.

7. To the Senate of the United States: In compliance with your resolution of December 5, 1862, requesting the President "to furnish the Senate with all information in his possession touching the late Indian Barbarities in the State of Minnesota, and also the evidence in his possession upon which some of the principal actors and headmen were tried and condemned to death," I have the honor to state