White gift: the potlatch and the rhetoric of Canadian colonialism, 1868-1936

• Main Author: Bracken, Christopher Joseph
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1994
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; Halliday; Indian; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6986

This dissertation examines the irony of Canada's discourse on "Indian affairs" by reinterpreting the postal literature generated around the banning of the potlatch in British Columbia from 1868 to 1936. To explain the logic behind the antipotlatch law, the first section, "Folding...