The town chiefs refused to acknowledge the results of the 1992 census as they felt they had been undercounted.

The local town chief enlists everyone to donate all scrap iron to the national drive to produce steel and make weaponry for retaking Taiwan.

If complications happen in a home birth, the birth assistant will contact the town chief.

Members of the National Council, the town chiefs, tended to be full-blood and spoke only Cherokee.

As of 2008 Maada Alpha Ndoleh is the town chief of Kailahun.

Goingsnake was a prominent Cherokee leader, initially serving as a town chief in what was called "Goingsnake's Town".

The basic unit of local government is the town chief.

In 1861 when the American Civil War began, Chupco served as town chief.

Their early government had three districts, each with its own chief, who together with the town chiefs sat on the National Council.