potlatch

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Kind of a last contribution to my weird friends on here—a potlatch, if you will.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2022

In 2019, the museum entered into a contract with Carey Newman, an artist from Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation, by taking part in a potlatch — a traditional ceremony.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2020

As the characters make their winding way toward the vaunted potlatch, there are passages of quiet beauty, deep emotion and sharp observation.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2020

Echo-Hawk’s family was adopted into the tribe in a potlatch with “a huge ceremony — it was the official, Athabascan way.”

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2018

A potlatch is the giving-away of all of our earthly possessions without any hope or expectation of any return, either in kind or value.

From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Jacobs, Orange