"It is a Strict Law That Bids Us Dance": Cosmologies, Colonialism, Death, and Ritual Authority in the Kwakwaka'wakw Potlatch, 1849 to 1922
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph Masco
Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 37, no. 1, January 1995, pp. 41-75
Description
Argues that contact with Europeans fundamentally altered the Kwakwaka'wakw culture, rituals. Includes commentary on the Alert Bay trials.