Totem: Return and Renewal

Totem: Return and Renewal (2007)

January 1st, 20070h 23min

Documentary
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Overview

In this follow-up to his 2003 film, Totem: the Return of the G'psgolox Pole, filmmaker Gil Cardinal documents the events of the final journey of the G'psgolox Pole as it returns home to Kitamaat and the Haisla people, from where it went missing in 1929.


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