National Museum of Scotland agrees to return totem pole to indigenous people of British Columbia due to the ‘difficult legacies’ of Britain’s colonial past

A wooden totem pole taken from an indigenous Canadian community nearly a century ago is to be returned.

The decision to return the House of Ni’isjoohl Memorial Pole was announced by directors at the National Museum of Scotland who said the ‘difficult legacies’ associated with its display had forced them to reconsider its future.

Plans are under way to send back the hand-carved totem pole to the Nisga’a in British Columbia after a delegation requested its repatriation in August.

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