DCHP-3

Potlatch Law

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a federal law forbidding the potlatch (def. 2a) on the ground that the institution was wasteful and disruptive. See quote.

See: potlatch ((n.))(def. 2a)

Quotations

1961
The Potlatch Law as it came to be called . . . remained on the statutes of Canada [from April 19, 1884] until the Indian Act was revised completely in 1951. . . .