[OSM-talk] USA and Canada beat Germany to ban Potlatch

[Nic Roets]

Richard anticipated this earlier this month (and it turns out he's quite
well-read) :
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/3250#comments

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> 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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