The potlatch was outlawed by Canadian Government until early 1951 and US until 1934. https://youtu.be/tpXNS-ZnKoQ?t=55s … cc: @NickSzabo4 #cryptopotlatch
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Potlatch, like cargo cults, was a Columbian disruption, the result of hand mfg. trying to compete on its trdtnl terms with Western industry.
Sadly these cultures were never observed and recorded in their pre-contact long-term equilibrium culture.
