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Review

An Iron Hand upon the People: The Law Against the Potlatch on the Northwest Coast

By Douglas Cole, Ira Chaikin

Review By Hamar Foster

November 4, 2013

BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | p. 218-24

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 91/92, Autumn/Winter 1991/92

We acknowledge that we live and work on unceded Indigenous territories and we thank the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations for their hospitality.