For those of you who have not yet grown webs between your fingers (a sign of living here too long), I thought you might like to now what the term means:
A potlatch is a festival practiced by the peoples living on the shores of the Salish Sea (Puget Sound, the Gulf of Georgia, and the Inside Passage). The word comes from the lingua franca of Northwest people, Chinook, and means “to give away” or “a gift.” The festival celebrates a tradition of those who are better off giving away to share with others. Ironically, for our use of the term, the potlatch was banned by both the Canadian and United States’ federal governments because it interfered with the efforts of Christian missionaries to civilize the peoples who lived her first!
in that NW spirit, let me wish you all:
next BIG holidays: New Years, Passover …. see our Haggadah @ Vasculata.com