Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance (1975)
54m
Running Time
January 1, 1975Release Date
Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance (1975)
54m
Running Time
January 1, 1975Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Gloria Cranmer Webster
Narrator
Tony Westman
Cinematography
Zale Dalen
Sound Recordist
Sally Paterson
Editor
Richard Patton
Sound Recordist / Second Unit Director of Photography
Dennis Wheeler
Director
Tom Shandel
Producer
Enda Bratt
Wardrobe Coordinator
Joe Mock
Original Music Composer
Details.
This Movie Is About.
colonialism
indigenous peoples
canadian history
indigenous rights
indigenous sovereignty