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

父母通常会举行盛大的夸富宴和持续多日的盛宴。

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

而他，反过来，给了这样一个夸富宴， 只有传统才能与之抗衡。

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

我们的夸富宴是纪念性的竖杆仪式，以纪念我们已故的 Gaahlaay 酋长。

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

potlatch的主要特征是酋长向他的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.

加拿大政府于 1884 年禁止聚餐仪式。由于抵制和态度的转变，该乐队于 1951 年被取消。幸运的是，聚餐仪式至今仍是部落生活的一部分。

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.

在我们的夸富宴期间，我们分享了我们的歌曲和我们的故事、我们的语言和我们的艺术、我们的传统以及我们与土地和水域的深厚关系。

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得了贪婪病；为了治好它，他必须大摆宴席，将他的财富分给穷人，分给老弱病残和缺粮的人。

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一起举行盛宴和开展业务， 例如酋长就职，或者一个人接受名字、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.

这是他们生活中很正常的一部分，但在他们心目中却给美国和加拿大政府带来了麻烦，除了造成水和奴隶制之外，夸富宴仪式本身也被认为是一种浪费。

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的意外后果，我们的夸富宴禁令， 寄宿学校，我们的面具和杆子被烧成木柴，或者来搜查我们被迫放弃的村庄的收藏家？