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A.Word.A.Day--powwow powwow (POU-wou) noun 1. A Native American ceremony featuring dances, feasting, fair, etc. 2. A Native American shaman. 3. A meeting, conference, or get-together. verb intr. 1. To hold a powwow. 2. To confer. [From Narragansett powwaw (shaman).] "Putin himself went on a charm offensive Thursday at a meeting in the Kremlin with executives of more than a dozen leading Western and Russian investment banks. The unprecedented powwow came less than an hour after prosecutors announced they had seized the Yukos shares as collateral for the $1 billion Khodorkovsky allegedly cost the state." Catherine Belton; Kremlin Tempers Attack on Yukos; Moscow Times (Russia); Nov 3, 2003. "At one point during the annual sales powwow at a San Francisco convention center in August, a wizened (John) Chambers came out from behind the podium to be closer to the 10,000 salespeople." Peter Burrows; Cisco's Comeback; Businessweek (New York); Nov 24, 2003. This week's theme: words borrowed from Native American languages. X-Bonus Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. -Amschel Mayer Rothschild, banker (1743-1812)

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