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Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony

Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony

Archibald, Jo-Ann
Davidson, Sara Florence
Davidson, Robert

Paperback

Native American HistoryAnthropologyGeneral Education

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 1553797736
ISBN13: 9781553797739
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Published: Oct 12 2018
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In 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 government's 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 was held. The occasion: the raising of a totem pole carved by Robert Davidson, the first the community had seen in close to 80 years. From then on, the community publicly reclaimed, from the Elders who remained to share it, the knowledge that has almost been lost.

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