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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.
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.
Derived from the Nootka Indian word patschatl, meaning “to give,” the potlatch traditionally enabled a chief to demonstrate his prestige to neighboring tribes.