Based on their narratives, these events appear to be the banning of the potlatch in 1881, the jailing of those involved with the Cranmer potlatch of 1921, the residential school and the return of the potlatch regalia. [...] Most accounts mention trading along the “grease trail” ( a traditional trade route from Kwakwaka’wakw territory on the east coast of Vancouver Island to the territory of the Mowachaht tribe on the west coast) which enriched the economic and social life of the Kwakwaka’wakw. [...] During the period between 1886 and the second decade of the twentieth century, Franz Boas and George Hunt reported that the traditional cultural life was flourishing and while certain ceremonies were not being performed by the end of the period, they were still clear in the memory of many (1966). [...] In British Columbia, Sir James Douglas, the Chief Factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company and the governor of the colonies created reserves in the 1850’s. [...] These political moves by Canadian governments arose because the traditional ways of life of the aboriginal peoples were in conflict with the economic, social and religious needs of the settlers, the church and the government.