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Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance (1975)
Directed by Dennis Wheeler
Documentary · 54m
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
- Original Music Composer
- Joe Mock
- Editor
- Sally Paterson
- Producer
- Tom Shandel
Details
- Release date
- 1975-01-01
- Runtime
- 54m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- U'mista Cultural Society