A free screening of Totem: The Return of the G'Psgolox Pole, presented as part of National Canadian Film Day. The day is a massive, one-day, coast-to-coast-to-coast celebration of Canadian cinema!
Advanced registration is not required to attend the screening.
About the Movie
Directed by Gil Cardinal
2003, Canada, 70 minutes, English
This film chronicles the Haisla people of British Columbia's journey to get back their tribe’s nine-metre mortuary pole — otherwise known as the G’psgolox.
The pole’s fate had been a mystery since its disappearance in 1929. However, in the 1990s, it was discovered to be in the possession of the National Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm, Sweden.