Her work has been called "intimately revealing." The book tells the story of the potlatch. First the preparations: gathering traditional foods; making drums, spruce root hats, and other special gifts; making button blankets for the dancers, and practicing the dances. Then the visitors, and the events of two long evenings of speeches, songs, and dances. The photographs are set next to relevant quoted words of the participants, often of the people actually in the photographs. The result is a real sense of sharing in the thanksgiving.