Repatriation as Social Drama: The Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, 1922-1980
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ira Jacknis
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 274-286
Description
Article describes the social and political factors and events that influenced and were a part of the extended process of repatriating potlatch artifacts that had been confiscated in 1922 under an amendment to the Indian Act prohibiting the potlatch ceremony.