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Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance

1975-01-01 en 54m
Documentary
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.

Editor

Sally Paterson

Director

Dennis Wheeler

Wardrobe Coordinator

Enda Bratt

Producer

Tom Shandel

Cinematography

Tony Westman

Second Unit Director of Photography

Richard Patton

colonialism canadian history indigenous peoples indigenous rights indigenous sovereignty

Status

Released

Countries

  • Canada

Companies

  • U'mista Cultural Society

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