Title: The Gitksan Potlatch: population flux, resource ownership and reciprocity,
Authors: Adams, John Winthrop.
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada
Year: 1973
Subjects: Gitxsan Indians.; Potlatch British Columbia.
Abstract: Based on fieldwork carried out from 1965 to 1967.
Contents: Introduction [Gitksan Indians Aboriginal or Native peoples, First Nations, Pacific -- Northwest Coast Canada today ; reserve and traplines, status, jobs, education] -- Aspects of Gitksan Social organization [houses, kinship, reincarnation -- perpetuation -- succession of lineages, Q'apq'apxw; rights to resources, status, class, names, power, Naxnox, dancing societies] -- Funeral feasts [i.e. Silas Inness, Eagle of Kitwanga 1965 feast, reciprocation and loss] -- Redistribution in the Potlatch [food and wealth, Northwest Coast societies] -- Spirit of the Gift.