Bong Bong!Shake Shake!Wonderful noises fill your ears.You are sitting on the ground watching the Sun go down.As you watch you smell the delicious food cooking over a huge bon fire.You are at a potlatch hosted by the Northwest Tribes. A potlatch ,as you can infer, is pretty exciting.At the end of a potlatch everyone would get a gift.If you were important you would get a better gift ,like a canoe, but if you were less important you would get something simple like a cedar bark blanket.Potlatches can also be very important.For example, you would would have a potlatch if the chief's son was becoming chief and if you went that meant that you accepted him as the new chief.Even if you didn't go, you still accepted him. Potlatches are not
