Crossword-Solution: POTLATCH
We have 28 clues for the answer “POTLATCH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| competitive ceremonial activity among certain North American Indians | 1 answer |
| Winter festival of Pacific Coast Indians. | 1 answer |
| Tribal ceremonial feast | 1 answer |
| Pacific coast Native American winter festival | 1 answer |
| Pacific coast Native American gift-giving festival | 1 answer |
| Northwestern native ceremony | 1 answer |
| Northwestern get-together | 1 answer |
| Native American ceremonial feast | 1 answer |
| Indian equivalent of Christmas. | 1 answer |
| Indian ceremonial festival | 1 answer |
| Chinook shindig | 1 answer |
| Celebratory Native American feast | 1 answer |
| AMERICAN Indian ceremony | 2 answers |
| INDIAN festival | 4 answers |
| Make whoopee | 6 answers |
| fatten on | 6 answers |
| DRINK up | 11 answers |
| A REPUBLIC IN NORTHWESTERN AFRICA ON THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST | 11 answers |
| Fall (to) | 15 answers |
| prey on | 23 answers |
| groaning board | 32 answers |
| good table | 34 answers |
| festival | 37 answers |
| Partake | 42 answers |
| Sate | 45 answers |
| Make Merry | 46 answers |
| Feast | 52 answers |
| Rejoice | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POTLATCH (5)
They said Shak-shak had the disease of greed; that to cure it he must give a great potlatch, divide his riches with the poorer ones, share them with the old, the sick, the foodless.
First t'ing we goin' have beeg potlatch, lak Siwash weddin'." "Goody! Now run away while I get up." But the man shook his head.
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.
They had been in the habit of bringing venison and salmon to the settlement for sale; and when Nannie's mother tells them that she has no longer any money to buy, they say, "Oh, no, it is a potlatch!" which in their language mean a present.
The Indian generally, is an ill-mannered brute, who steals into your presence without warning, handles whatever he sees without permission, smokes if you allow it, and seldom, especially if a middle-aged or old woman, leaves you without begging a potlatch.
Quotes with POTLATCH (2)
If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted directly, why does it assume the “mystified” form of two consecutive acts each of which is staged as a free voluntary display of generosity? Here we encounter the paradoxes of forced choice, of freedom to do what is necessary, at its most elementary: I have to do freely what I am expected to do. (If, upon receiving a gift, I immediately return it to the giver, this direct circu…
A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1953–2019).