A simple definition of potlatch is: an Alaska Native social gathering ... depending on the environment and wealth of the tribe.

“We’re not aiming for luxury here, we’re aiming for elegance,” explains Hans Febles, co-owner of The Potlatch Club on the Bahamas island of Eleuthera. From the patrician whitewashed ...

Traditional ceremonies such as the Sun Dance, practiced by many Plains tribes, and the Potlatch, practiced by tribes in the Pacific Northwest, were banned in the late 1800s. Indians who continued to ...