However, within a week, the rightful council met and restored Ross as principal chief.
The law provided that the President may appoint a principal chief for any of the tribes.
Black Fox died, after having been restored as principal chief.
He served as the principal chief about the middle of the 19th century.
Isparhecher felt he had won and served as principal chief briefly during December 1883.
Her husband's great-great-grandfather was a principal chief at the time of the conflict.
The principal chief of the Indians was killed, and the rest fled.
Quanah was never elected principal chief of the tribe by the people.
He lost his reelection attempt later that year, but won a two-year term as principal chief in 1916.
But their principal chief, an old man, had never seen either.