EN280 Lecture 1: Jan. 4 Movie
Document Summary
Totem pole has stood in sweden for 77 years. The haisla people: steel column has been a painful symbol: loss of culture and an imprisonment of the spirit within. After 15 years of negotiations, government returned the pole: suitable control should be built it was suggested to house the artefact. People of sweden listened, public pressure mounted and the precondition was relinquished. Repatriated: first time this has happened with a pole. Delegation of people went to stockholm to witness this. First helped to make a replacement, gifted specifically for this museum. Some haisla seeing the pole for the first time. Heard a prayer with respect to the pole coming home, ancestors are waiting for its return, the spirit will be woken up with the pole"s return. Specially designed crate: museum"s fundamental concern was preservation control, climate controlled until the haisla can build a center to protect it. Songs and spirit offerings are given to pole for its long journey home.
