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What is the name of the ceremonial feast practised by Pacific Northwest Native peoples, exemplified by the Coast Salish and Kwakwaka'wakw, featuring salmon and other traditional foods?

The potlatch was far more than a feast ΓÇö it was a complex economic and social institution where hosts gave away wealth to validate status, banned by Canadian law from 1885 to 1951.

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