Quote:
"The potlatch was not really described in detail, nor was the imposition of modern life on the Queen Charlotte Islands treated with anything but praise. The viewer might have wondered if smiling Indian children at the Canadian government school were so perfectly adjusted or if indeed 'economic and spiritual needs were satisfied by basket-making.'"
-- Gary Evans

Source:
Evans, Gary. John Grierson and the National Film Board: The Politics of Wartime Propaganda. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984. (p. 158)