Celebrations held as totem pole held by museum for more than a century repatriated to B.C. First Nation
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BELLA COOLA, B.C. — A carved pole that embodies the history and culture of a British Columbia First Nation is being welcomed back to its ancestral home, more than 100 years after it was taken. Carved in the mid-1800s as an entrance pole to a long house, the Snow family pole was later used as a marker for a family grave but was taken without permission in 1913 and added to a collection of theNuxalk First Nation Chief Deric Snow is a descendent of the man who carved the totem pole and says the return is a good first step because his great-grandfather’s spirit remains inside the totem and cannot be at rest until the pole is returned home.
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