The pole was taken from the Nuxalk homeland in South Bentinck (Talleomy) south of Bella Coola after people were forced to relocate after a smallpox epidemic around 1900.
A totem pole that was taken from a remote First Nation on the Central Coast and has been in the Royal B.C. Museum’s collection for more than a century is going home.
The museum reportedly paid $45 for the pole, which was brought south around 1912 and housed in the museum’s collections.He said the pole must be brought back to free his spirit and for the next generations of the Nuxalk people. Snow said when he initiated a lawsuit in February 2022, talks on an agreement to return the totem “lit a fire … that’s when they thought they should give it back.”
The Nuxalk People will present the Esquimalt and Songhees First Nations with a gift “for looking after our totem for over 100 years.” The Royal B.C. Museum did not respond to requests for an interview on Tuesday, but provided a statement to the Times Colonist.
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