Return of house post connecting Gitxaala to their ancestors emotional for north coast Nation
In the 138 years since an Indigenous house post was chopped down and ordered burned by missionaries, it was sold under duress, damaged and displayed as a “historic oddity,” donated to a museum, then packed away in storage for decades.
The post depicts a grizzly bear of the sea and her cubs, which are the two main crests of the house within the nation. “The trauma that they’ve seen, the sadness from seeing the great-great-grandparents being forced to cut down poles and burn them because of the Christian missionaries, the colonial government,” said Johnson.
The fishing company used the post as a decorative object in a “completely inappropriate” way, Pickering said.The house post made its way to the museum when Charles Clark Willoughby, a former director, reached out to the fishing company to negotiate its donation.Pickering said it wasn’t until the museum was contacted by the Gitxaala Nation in 2021 to return the post that they learned of its “incredibly symbolic cultural value.
“That is our way to recognize each other just by what the crest on the house post or totem poles will look like.”
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