An Iron Hand upon the People: The Law Against the Potlatch on the Northwest Coast

<p>From the back cover: "A well-researched, readable, and at times entertaining book on the potlatch law and its sporadic enforcement against British Columbia Indians. It is the first generally available work about an important chapter in the history of British Columbia Indian governmental relations...."</p>

Politics & Social Sciences

Cole, Douglas

Chaikin, Ira

Social Sciences

Univ of Washington Pr

In 1885 the Canadian government outlawed the potlatch, a ceremony central to the cultures of many Northwest Coast Indians. This timely and important book traces the history of the antipotlatch law, the government's attempts to enforce it, and the widespread Native opposition to the repressive legislation, shedding new light on a crucial chapter in the history of North American Native peoples.

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An Iron Hand Upon the People

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