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In the great dome’s interior rotunda, painter George Southwell’s murals illustrate the four virtues that “made” British Columbia: Courage, as shown by George Vancouver confronting the Spanish at Nootka Sound in 1792; Spirit of Enterprise, with James Douglas establishing Fort Victoria for the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1842; Work, by those who had to build the Fort; and Justice, meted out to the unruly mob engaged in the 1858 gold rush.
Derived from the Nootka Indian word patschatl, meaning “to give,” the potlatch traditionally enabled a chief to demonstrate his prestige to neighboring tribes.
The Choctaw said, Apalachi helpers, allies; the Blackfoot, Atsina Good people the Nootka, also, inadvertently named the Wakash, saying, “Good = waukash good just as the Sheepscot named the Wannoak by saying they were nopesawenoak warriors; the Pomo said of their southwestern cousins, the Kashaya, that they were kashaya nimble, quick, by way of praise, blame, or mere description.