[Talk-de] USA and Canada beat Germany to ban Potlatch

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

    from Wikipedia:

"Potlatching was made illegal in Canada in 1885 and the United States in 
the late nineteenth century, largely at the urging of missionaries and 
government agents who considered it "a worse than useless custom" that 
was seen as wasteful, unproductive which was not part of "civilized" 
values."

Bye
Frederik

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