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

Sally Paterson
Editor

Dennis Wheeler
Director

Enda Bratt
Wardrobe Coordinator

Tom Shandel
Producer

Tony Westman
Cinematography

Richard Patton
Second Unit Director of Photography / Sound Recordist

Zale Dalen
Sound Recordist

Joe Mock
Original Music Composer
Details.
This Movie Is About.
colonialism
canadian history
indigenous peoples
indigenous rights
indigenous sovereignty