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stevemon on March 28, 2008 - 2:40pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

That's fine if the things you give away were produced by you but perhaps the chiefs gained their status by giving away things that they appropriated from others.

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RBM on March 28, 2008 - 8:56pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

perhaps the chiefs gained their status by giving away things that they appropriated from others.

Seeing as how you don't provide a link, I'd have to call that statement one of casting aspersions.

Here's
a google return with a snip about
revival from one of those returns:

One way the First Nations revived the Potlatch tradition was by having the Commissioner's Potlatch, which was first held in Whitehorse in June of 1998. There were representatives from all the Yukon First Nations, as well as Northem British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories. This event was well attended by Yukoners and visitors alike. This has since become an annual
event.

I'd just guess that there wasn't much "appropriated from others", if any.

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