Potlatch Appropriation Strategies: Indian Agent William Halliday
"This potlatch custom has tended very materially to retard progress among the Indians. It has set up false ideas amongst them, and has been a great waste of time, a great waste of energy, and a great waste of substance. However, apparently it will take some time before the idea of the potlatch will be entirely eliminated, and when that is done progress will be extremely rapid, as the Indian of to-day, apart from these ideas, is inclined to be progressive."
- Potlatch and totem, and the recollections of an Indian agent : Halliday, William May, 1866-1957
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