| Many sources describe the potlatch as a ceremony for the purpose of wealth display. |
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| This kind of destruction should not be confounded with the burning of valuables during a potlatch. |
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| The consumerist potlatch is especially striking because the brand names are nearly all American. |
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| The Inuit who held the potlatch would often give away his most valuable possessions at the ceremony. |
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| And on this chilly Friday afternoon, the group is creating button blankets, traditionally used in First Nations ceremonies such as the potlatch. |
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| Take the widespread tribal custom of potlatch, for example, where gifts are exchanged between families or communities. |
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| Traditionally, a feast called a potlatch was held whenever a new totem pole was raised. |
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| The most important purpose of a potlatch was to enable a new chief to show his rank and establish his claim to power. |
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| The community is looking forward to hosting their first potlatch there very soon. |
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| Masks were used by chiefs in winter ceremonies and potlatch performances, and by shamans in curing sessions. |
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| Of course throughout this sorry time many of the cultural practices were taken away, including the potlatch. |
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| During a potlatch, the chief pulls them apart to signal the beginning of gift distribution to the guests. |
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| Dance performances are an integral part of a potlatch, feast or other ceremony. |
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| Such things had to be formally and publicly announced at a potlatch, an event sponsored by each group north of the Columbia River. |
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| He was an anthropologist who worked on the potlatch originally and became fascinated with these cycles by which a thing had value, lost value, regained value. |
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| A potlatch was given by an heir or successor to assert and validate his newly assumed social position. |
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| Simultaneously, officials conducted a wave of potlatch arrests and some chiefs were convicted and jailed. |
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| The potlatch was the event, and the people who attended were part of the experience. |
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| We arrived in the middle of winter to participate in that village's annual Stick Dance, a weeklong ceremony for the dead that culminates in a traditional potlatch. |
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| Patrick, dressed in a cedar-bark shirt and basket-like hat, filled us in on the Northwest Indians, whaling, copper mining, totem poles and potlatch ceremonies. |
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| Perhaps the most familiar example of a gift culture is that of the native Americans of the Pacific Northwest such as the Kwakiutl and their famous potlatch ceremonies. |
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| In the society of survival, where the agonistic and vertiginous play of the potlatch is displaced by accumulation, an awareness of this has a deleterious effect on humanity. |
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| It is also during the potlatch ceremonies that we receive our traditional names, but I haven't received mine yet. |
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| Another reason for a potlatch was to get everyone together for the building of a new house and the raising of a totem pole in front of it. |
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| I THOUGHT OF these verses while attending a memorial potlatch in Tanana, Alaska, for the Rev. |
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| Their two most striking types of ceremonies are the potlatch, a feast and a dance for display and distribution of the host's wealth, and the midwinter initiation ceremony. |
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| The looting of the Iraq museum is second only perhaps to the property of the west coast Indian tribes in Canada, the Haida, and those tribes whose potlatch ceremonies were outlawed. |
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| Accumulating goods for distribution at a potlatch might take years. |
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| In my province of British Columbia the potlatch was outlawed. |
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| Earlier in this century, this community had resisted the government ban on the potlatch until the RCMP just came door to door and took the regalia away. |
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| The exception is on the West Coast where the skills to exploit a lush environment led to security, trade and leisure activities such as the potlatch ceremonies. |
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| But they turned the corner a couple of decades ago when they sat down to negotiate with the federal government to recover these cultural properties, which, by the tradition of the potlatch, are the property of families. |
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| Alert Bay is not in my riding, but Alert Bay has had a long struggle to repatriate many of the artifacts and potlatch items that would continue to be used in a ceremonial and traditional way. |
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| Now when first nations communities ask for them back so that they can use them in their potlatch ceremonies, they are told they cannot have them back if they are actually going to use the artifacts. |
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| The potlatch was perhaps the most ready-made container for explaining the gospel and the kingdom of God, in all its counterintuitiveness, to native people. |
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| The board of directors of Potlatch Corporation has declared a quarterly distribution on the Company's common stock. |
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| Potlatch will make all fundings, results, recommendations and reports available to the public. |
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| Use of the land reverts to Potlatch after a full harvest cycle is completed, and no later than 30 years after the trees were planted, the company said. |
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| The original Potlatch sawmill location was so remote that pack trains were required to initially supply construction materials. |
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