Information
Release DateJanuary 1, 1975
Runtime54m
StatusReleased
ProductionU'mista Cultural Society
LanguagesEnglish
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Popularity0
Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance
Synopsis
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.
Cast & Crew
Director
Dennis Wheeler
Featured Cast
Gloria Cranmer Webster
Narrator
