The parents usually give a great potlatch, and a feast that lasts many days.

父母通常会举行盛大夸富宴和持续多日盛宴。

Our potlatch was memorial pole raising, honoring our late Chief Gaahlaay.

我们夸富宴是纪念性竖杆仪式，以纪念我们已故 Gaahlaay 酋长。

And he, in turn, gave such a potlatch that nothing but tradition can vie with it.

而他，反过来，样个夸富宴， 只有传统才能与之抗衡。

The main characteristic of the potlatch has the chiefs giving a way of gifts to his people and others.

potlatch主要特征是酋长向他人民和其他人赠送礼物。

The Canadian government banned the potluck ceremony in 1884. Resistance and changing attitudes resulted in the band being lifted in 1951. The potlatch fortunately remains a part of tribal life today.

加拿大政于 1884 年禁止聚餐仪式。由于抵制和态度转变，该乐队于 1951 年被取消。幸运是，聚餐仪式至今仍是部落生部分。

And during our potlatch, we shared in our songs and our stories, in our language and in our art, in our traditions and in our deep relationship with our lands and waters.

在我们夸富宴期间，我们分享我们歌曲和我们故事、我们语言和我们艺术、我们传统以及我们与土地和水域深厚关系。

They said Shak-shak had the disease of greed; that to cure it he must give a great potlatch, divide his riches with the poorer ones, share them with the old, the sick, the foodless.

他们说Shak-shak得贪婪病；为治好它，他必须大摆宴席，将他财富分穷人，分老弱病残和缺粮人。

A potlatch is when clans and nations come togetherfor the purposes of feasting and conducting businesslike a chief being inaugurated, or a person receiving a name or a death or a marriage.

夸富宴是指氏族和国家聚集在起举行盛宴和开展业务， 例如酋长就职，或者个人接受名字、死亡或婚姻。

It was a normal part of their lives, but it was a cause of trouble to the American and Canadian governments in their minds in addition to causing water and slavery, the potlatch ceremony itself was regarded as wasteful.

是他们生中很正常部分，但在他们心目中却美国和加拿大政带来麻烦，除造成水和奴隶制之外，夸富宴仪式本身也被认为是种浪费。

Or what I assume were the unintended consequencesof smallpox and tuberculosis, our potlatch bans, residential schools, the burning of our masks and poles as firewood, or the collectors who came and ransacked the villagesthat we were forced to abandon?

或者我假设是天花和肺结核意外后果，我们夸富宴禁令， 寄宿学校，我们面具和杆子被烧成木柴，或者来搜查我们被迫放弃村庄收藏家？