The potlatch ban was legislation forbidding the practice of the potlatch passed by the Government of Canada, begun in 1885 and lasting until 1951. Some first Nations saw the law as an instrument of intolerance and injustice, seeing it as an effort by the Canadian government to extinguish their indigenous traditions and enforce Euro-Canadian culture.
The potlatch ban was legislation forbidding the practice of the potlatch passed by the Government of Canada, begun in 1885 and lasting until 1951. Some first Nations saw the law as an instrument of intolerance and injustice, seeing it as an effort by the Canadian government to extinguish their indigenous traditions and enforce Euro-Canadian culture.
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