Usually means: Too many leaders, insufficient workers.
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We found 6 dictionaries that define the word too many chiefs and not enough indians:

General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. too many chiefs and not enough indians: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. too many chiefs and not enough Indians: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. too many chiefs and not enough Indians: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. too many chiefs and not enough indians, too many chiefs and not enough Indians: Wiktionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. too many chiefs and not enough Indians: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Too many chiefs and not enough indians)

noun:  Alternative form of too many chiefs and not enough Indians

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