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Potlatch

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

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

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