Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony valerie-lancaster Trish Johnston

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Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony valerie-lancaster Trish JohnstonIn 1884, the Canadian government enacted a ban on the potlatch, the foundational ceremony of the Haida people. The tradition, which determined social structure, transmitted cultural knowledge, and redistributed wealth, was seen as a cultural impediment to the governments aim of assimilation. The tradition did not die, however; the knowledge of the ceremony was kept alive by the Elders through other events until the ban was lifted. In 1969, a potlatch