“The Indian Act banned people gathering and performing their songs,” says Bunn-Marcuse, adding, that “the potlatch was the economic and legal system of the coast”. The ban was lifted in 1951, and in 2015 Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission found that it was part of a “cultural genocide”, which also included the notorious residential school programme, which separated families and erased local languages.
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