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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Potlatch \Pot"latch`\, n. [Chinook potlatch, pahtlatch, fr. Nootka pahchilt, pachalt, a gift.]
Among the Kwakiutl, Chimmesyan, and other Indians of the northwestern coast of North America, a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen, often, formerly, to his own impoverishment. Feasting, dancing, and public ceremonies accompany it.
Hence, a feast given to a large number of persons, often accompanied by gifts. [Colloq., Northwestern America]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1845, "a gift," from Chinook jargon pot-latch, "a gift," from Nootka (Wakashan) patshatl "giving, gift." Later (1865) in sense "ceremony in which gifts are exchanged."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A ceremony amongst certain indigenous peoples of the Pacific northwest in which gifts are bestowed upon guests and personal property is destroyed in a show of wealth and generosity. 2 A communal meal to which guests bring dishes to share.
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Land area (2000): 0.335781 sq. miles (0.869670 sq. km)
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Location: 46.922157 N, 116.897646 W
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Wikipedia
A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States, among whom it is traditionally the primary economic system. This includes the Heiltsuk, Haida, Nuxalk, Tlingit, Makah, Tsimshian, Nuu-chah-nulth, Kwakwaka'wakw, and Coast Salish cultures. Potlatches are also a common feature of the peoples of the Interior and of the Subarctic adjoining the Northwest Coast, though mostly without the elaborate ritual and gift-giving economy of the coastal peoples (see Athabaskan potlatch).
Potlatches went through a history of rigorous ban by both the Canadian and United States federal governments, continuing underground despite the risk of criminal punishment, and have been studied by many anthropologists. Since the practice was de-criminalized in the post-war years, the potlatch has re-emerged in some communities.
The word comes from the Chinook Jargon, meaning "to give away" or "a gift"; originally from the Nuu-chah-nulth word paɬaˑč, to make a ceremonial gift in a potlatch.
Potlatch is a ceremony among indigenous peoples in North America.
Potlatch may also refer to:
- Potlatch Corp., a Fortune 1000 forest paper and paperboard producer
- Potlatch, Idaho, a town in the United States
- Potlatch River, Idaho
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Potlatch, Washington, an unincorporated community in the United States
- Potlatch State Park, a camping shoreline park surrounding Potlatch, Washington
- Potlatch (convention), an annual science fiction convention in the Pacific Northwest
- Potlatch (album), by Redbone
- Potlatch (steamship)
- Potlatch (software), an Adobe Flash-based map editor created for the OpenStreetMap project
- Potlatch, a magazine published by the Letterist International from 1954 to 1957
Potlatch is the second album by Native American rock band Redbone.
Potlatch is an annual non-profit science fiction convention held in the Pacific Northwest region of North America since 1992. Unlike most SF conventions, Potlatch designates a "Book of Honor" rather than author, editor, fan, and/or artist " Guests of Honor;" the appellation "Book of Honor" does not preclude works from other media receiving the honor, such as films.
Potlatch is a free software editing tool for OpenStreetMap geodata using Adobe Flash. It is one of two editors embedded directly within the OpenStreetMap website.
Potlatch 2 requires a web browser with at least version 8 of the Flash plugin installed. It continues to be actively maintained.
Usage examples of "potlatch".
Mutt was lucky Kate had hooked up the trailer to bring the potlatch pictures into town.
Kate told her about the potlatch, and the picture, the original of which she had had Jim bring to the hospital.
So little Ta-la-pus set forth with his father and brother, well equipped for the great Potlatch, and the meeting of many from half a score of tribes.
They approved the boy and rejoiced to see the real Potlatch was begun.
When the Potlatch was over, old Chief Mowitch and Lapool and Ta-la-pus returned to Vancouver Island, but no more the boy sat alone on the isolated rock, watching the mainland through a mist of yearning.
The entire post of Katleean was getting ready for the Potlatch, an Indian festival scheduled for the near future.
The Northern Lights the white man calls them, as they leap and play above the frozen peaks, but the Thlinget knows them to be the spirits of the dead, homeless in space but hovering confidently overhead until their relatives on earth can give a Potlatch for their repose.
Whenever a Potlatch blanket is given away the name of a dead man is called and he receives it in the spirit world.
Katleean was beginning to celebrate the Potlatch in the singular way of the male, who, since time immemorial has made a holiday an occasion for a carousal.
Above the roofs of the native houses and straight between the totems of the Thunder-bird and the Bear, rose the black smoke of the Potlatch fire.
To further his own ends and to keep his hold on the natives, he had always donned the robes that went with this conferred honor and had taken an active part in the Potlatch ceremonies.
The never-ceasing beat of the Potlatch drums made a throbbing, low accompaniment to their guttural tones and laughter.
Senott, proud in her Potlatch finery, came close and gazed with friendly eyes at the white visitors.
All about the sides of the great room squatted natives in their Potlatch finery.
Never during the three days of the Potlatch did those drumbeats cease.