Which native American cultures were potlatch societies which means that people traced their family ties through their mother?

Answer 1

In the beginning of time the society was maternal since mothers gave birth to children. Δα Μα Mother Earth was the power that gave birth to all. It seems natural that native American people warship what their ancestors honored. The majority of people currently have family names that derive from the side of the father or the mother. There is a society [Iceland] where the family name derives from the part of mother and instead Ander - son the children are called Ander - dottir meaning daughter. In respect of the potlatch ceremonies there were held by the people living in the North West coast of US and Canada by the Pacific Ocean and among the religious and social aspects of the ceremony it was a way to redistribute wealth from those they had a surplus to those they were in need of food or other materials.

Answer 2

Potlatch was a festival feast and mechanism for the transfer of property. Potlatch has nothing to do with succession. The term for tracing ancestry (and possible succession) through mothers is known as matrilineal primogeniture.