Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony Mohican family and friendship

family and friendship

Collectively

Following his people's internment in Indian Territory in 1877

The forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools incubated a unifying Native identity

Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony Mohican family and friendshipBanned for 67 years by the Canadian government, the potlatch, the foundational ceremony of the Haida people, determined social structure, transmitted cultural knowledge, and redistributed wealth. These public ceremonies were revived in 1969 by the Elders who collectively remembered the historical ways. The potlatch was embraced by a new generation, who reclaimed practices that had almost been lost forever. Educator Sara Florence Davidson, saw how