Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance

Name: Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022-07-22
Duration: 54 min
Cast: Gloria Cranmer Webster

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NR 54 minDocumentary

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.

StarringGloria Cranmer Webster

DirectorDennis Wheeler

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