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The museum says its board of trustees approved the First Nation's request to transfer the Ni'isjoohl memorial pole to its territory in northwest B.C.
A delegation of Nisga'a leaders travelled to Edinburgh last August to request the transfer of the 11-metre pole.
Nisga'a Nation Chief Earl Stephens said in a statement their people believe the pole, which was hand-carved in the mid-1800s, is alive with the spirit of an ancestor and is now coming home to rest.
The Ni'isjoohl memorial pole is "a living constitutional and visual archive," said Noxs Ts'aawit (Amy Parent), a Canada research chair in Indigenous education and governance at Simon Fraser University and part of the delegation that visited Scotland earlier this year.
"So to have it removed is like having someone rip out a chapter of Canada's constitution and your most treasured family photo album and place it in a museum in another country to be viewed by foreigners on a daily basis," she said.
The First Nation says colonial ethnographer Marius Barbeau stole the pole in 1929 and later sold it to the National Museum of Scotland.
To read more about the returning of the stolen totem pole, tap the link in our bio. Photo by Neil Hanna/National Museum of Scotland. #totempole #Indigenous #britishcolumbia #scotland #cbcnews