Potlatch, as our people practice it, was a way of passing down our history, of keeping our history alive. When a Chief wanted to name a child, he invited people to witness and the history of that name would be told to the guests. If there was an Indian marriage, property and rights were transferred from the wife to the husband. There were probably a number of reasons why the people of today wanted to stop our potlatches, and I believe it was partly due to misunderstanding--they didn't understand what our ceremonies were all about. The other thing was they just thought they were better than us--we had no structure as a society, which was wrong--we did have a structure, which was the potlatch, our method of handing down our history.