Royaner
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The Royaner are the hereditary male clan leaders within the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. They are chosen by their respective Yakoyaner to represent their clan at the confederacy level. The specific name
Male leaders of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy at the Grand River in Ontario in 1871, including hereditary royaner and non-hereditary leaders.
Tadodaho (shown entangled in snakes) became the first Royaner and keeper of the Council Fire after being freed from his bad mind and accepting the Peacekeeper's message.
Clan Mother Elizabeth Brant
Sachem
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Sachem or sagamore is a term for leaders of Algonquian polities along the northeastern coast of North America. It is also now used to refer to non-Royaner leaders in the Haudenosaunee Confederacy such
Royaner
…Tuscarora: ruyà·ner In published historical accounts, the title of royaner has often been translated into English as chief, lord or sachem. However, many Haudenosaunee have expressed that those terms are not appropriate as they relay the wrong spirit of the role. Indeed, royaner is meant…
Statue of Daniel Nimham, a sachem of the Wappinger