> I am writing on behalf of one of my undergraduate students at the
> University who is doing research on the Potlatch. She wants to to
> analyze U.S. government repression of the Potlatch ceremony practiced by
> Pacific Northwest nations and cannot find anything at the University of
> Minnesota library which discusses this question specifically...
18 May 1995
Vancouver, Canada
Sunny @13 deg. Celsius
Your student might want to review a book I wrote with Douglas Cole
of Simon Fraser University entitled "'An Iron Hand Upon the People':
The Law Against the Potlatch on the Northwest Coast" (University of
Washington Press and Douglas and McIntyre, 1991). A soft-cover
edition was just released by U of W Press this spring.
The book focuses on the anti-potlatch law in Canada but features
some sections on the US, particularly Alaska. If nothing else, the
bibliography should prove useful.
I'm surprised you did not come across it in your library. Maybe
you could recommend it?
Ira Chaikin
e-mail: atn@web.apc.org