Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance

Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance

Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance


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0h 54m 1975 HD

Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance at Fmovies. Presents the history of the conflict between the Canadian government and the Kwakiutl Indians of the Northwest Pacific over the ritual of the Potlatch. Archival photographs and films, wax roll sound recordings, police reports, the original potlatch files, and correspondence of agents form the basis of the reconstruction of period events, while the film centres on a Potlatch given today by the Cranmer family of Alert Bay.

Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance (1975)
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