a1821 R. Hood (1974) 133 He then asked if we had not a medicine chief, who could prevent any person from dying, while he remained on their lands.
1851 M. Reid II. xvii. 285 One was the medicine chief, as I could tell by the flowing white hair.
1958 44 749 This work..deals with the life of a man who could boast of having been buffalo hunter, medicine chief,..and originator of the wild West show.