InstitutionClaim Cited
Canadian potlatch ban
Canada criminalized potlatching and used Indian Act amendments, agents, magistrates, police, churches, imprisonment, and confiscation to attack Northwest Coast systems of law, title, leadership, redistribution, kinship, and ceremony; Kwakwaka’wakw families continued in secret and later made repatriation and public renewal institutions of their own.
How did Canada try to make First Nations governable by criminalizing the public institutions through which they governed themselves?