While I don't have any footnotes for this, and thus it may verge toward being suspect, there are intimations that this was the procedure in certain First Nations, that your chief for a specific task was someone that knew it well- and sometimes it resulted in Europeans conducting negotiations with utterly Not This Office persons.
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Re: From: The Tadpole
Date: 2014-07-08 01:22 am (UTC)