Secret of the Dance Kindness Sparrow (1990)

Sparrow (1990)

adaptive social processes that both incorporated European ideas and reinforced historically understood notions of self and community

Leslie Brown

Guided Reading Level: L

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Secret of the Dance Kindness Sparrow (1990)Secret of the Dance is a picture book tells the fictional story of an nine year old Kwakwaka'wakw boy who witnesses a Potlatch Ceremony in 1935. Retired provincial court judge, Alfred Scow, recounts the event to Andrea Spalding about this once forbidden ceremony. The federal government passed legislation prohibiting Potlatch Ceremonies in 1885. These important ceremonies were often held in private by families because if caught the participants could