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If Odin was not a god with the gifts of a medicine-man, and did not owe his chiefship to his talent for dealing with magic, he is greatly maligned.

From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew

He is the first man, the first Red Cloud, ever born, and born again, to chiefship of his people.

From The Acorn-Planter A California Forest Play (1916) by London, Jack

Asi, like Mataafa, disclaimed his chiefship and declared himself a private person; but he was more rudely dealt with. 

From A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Stevenson, Robert Louis

He was deposed from his chiefship in 1872, re-instated in 1873, but has been inactive as a chief since, and has lost his influence in the tribe.

From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.

Through them he obtained, as we have heard, the chiefship of the gods.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan