A stolen totem pole's 77-year odyssey ends where it began — but who's really coming home?
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.
Direction
Cardinal's patient, reverent gaze refuses spectacle.
Production
The pole itself: weathered, powerful, finally witnessed.
Director
Gil Cardinal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The G'psgolox Pole was one of the first major Indigenous repatriations from a European museum, setting precedent for thousands of claims since.
Cardinal, a Métis filmmaker adopted into a settler family, made this as part of his lifelong reckoning with identity — the pole's return mirrors his own.
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