Translation for "potlatching" to spanish
Potlatching
  • potlatch
Translation examples
potlatch
Hey, I really appreciate you letting me contribute a little piece of venison to your potlatch.
Les agradezco que me hayan dejado traer un poco de venado a su potlatch.
Yes. Johnny, would you like to toss some spear at some tatonka, or cast some venison into the potlatch?
Johnny, ¿te gustaría cazar un tatonka, o traer carne de venado al potlatch?
We got some blankets for the potlatch festival.
Hemos comprado unas mantas para el potlatch.
The potlatch was over.
El Potlatch había terminado.
a potlatch in honor of what?
¿En honor de qué era el potlatch?
The missionaries hated potlatch.
Los misioneros detestaban el potlatch.
Lots of things happen at potlatch. Good things. Noisy things.
En el potlatch pasan muchas cosas. Cosas buenas. Cosas ruidosas.
A potlatch for what?' and watching the celebration as if from afar, she explained this ancient custom:
¿Un potlatch para qué? La muchacha, contemplando los festejos como desde lejos, explicó la antigua costumbre:
They thought they must have better use for such vast wealth.” “Potlatch?” Renner said.
Creyeron que ellos tendrían un mejor uso para esa vasta riqueza. —¿Potlatch? —preguntó Renner—.
These pirates coveted what we were destroying in what must have appeared to be a form of potlatch.
Esos piratas codiciaban lo que nosotros estábamos destruyendo en lo que debió parecer una forma de potlatch.
They spent with munificence, with largesse, faithful to an economics of the potlatch that had easily survived successive political regimes.
Gastaban rumbosamente, con esplendidez, fieles a una economía de potlatch que había sobrevivido sin esfuerzo a los sucesivos regímenes políticos.
Look! They dance. They sing. And Sam Bigears grows bigger in their eyes, for he has made real potlatch.
¡Mira! Cantan, bailan. Y Sam Bigears crece ante sus ojos, pues ha hecho un verdadero potlatch.
"That's a potluck," Síle corrected her. "A potlatch is a Pacific Coast feast where somebody gives away all their possessions."
—Que no —la corrigió Síle—, un potlatch es una fiesta en la Costa del Pacífico donde alguien regala todas sus posesiones.
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