| In former times local headmen functioned as war chiefs, but paramount chiefs over various local communities were absent. |
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| Gifts of a pair of scissors or a looking glass were made to the caciques or village headmen from time to time to keep them friendly. |
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| Other peoples had military leaders, tribal chiefs, or headmen, but not officials. |
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| Local headmen and tribal chiefs, on whom his regime relies, were given even larger awards of between 500 and 750 percent. |
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| However, conscription quotas placed on African chiefs or headmen in the Reserves undermined the legitimacy of the colonial regime on the ground. |
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| Often in debt, they are economically and politically dependent on local headmen and landlords. |
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| The system of chieftaincy follows the progression of paramount chief, senior chiefs, sub-chiefs, headmen and sub-headmen. |
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| As in Cuba, Jamaica's inhabitants divided their island into provinces, each ruled over by a cacique assisted by village headmen or sub-chiefs. |
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| About 300 people, including the headmen of 10 communities and children and teachers from Coffee Bay schools, attended the function. |
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| Chiefs and headmen are important figures both in villages and nationally, although they are forbidden to be active in party politics. |
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| Family shrines are denuded as children of princes, chiefs, priests, village headmen, and elders slough off ancient beliefs and sell or burn a heritage they abhor. |
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| 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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| Seeing chiefs, village headmen and politicians crying for free food for their constituents may give the impression that the bumper harvest was something of a hoax. |
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| All land was owned and allocated by the king through chiefs and headmen. |
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