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In 1885 the Canadian government outlawed the potlatch, a ceremony central to the cultures of many Northwest Coast Indians. This timely and important book traces the history of the antipotlatch law, the government's attempts to enforce it, and the widespread Native opposition to the repressive legislation, shedding new light on a crucial chapter in the history of North American Native peoples.
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Spencer Galvin
reviewed Iron Hand upon the People: The Law against the Potlatch on the Northwest Coast - Douglas Col... on September 24, 2008
Iron Hand upon the People
Frank Herbert, famous for the Dune series, has produced another work as great as Dune, but this time on a water world.
The book is actually a sequel to "The Jesus Incident," a volume about a scientist who tampers with human genetics to help them survive on the water world. The Lazarus Effect is stand alone, however, and from I can detect, more accessible than the first (which is in turn a loose sequel of Herbert's "Destination Void").
The Islanders live on floating organically grown islands with a crowded, smelly third-world culture. The Mermen live in cities under the ocean, and are a much more "civilized" western-style culture. The Islanders are pariahs because many of them have genetic mutations, as three of main characters display with luminous eyes, a giant head one can barely hold up, or elongated arms, respectively. Mermen value genetic purity and science and look down their noses at the more religious Islanders, who worship "Ship". Yet both are human with good and bad points, just very different cultures. This book is pure genius on many levels, but I will have to write a more deserving review on another occasion.
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