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Haida Totems
In the spring of 2005 I had the opportunity to spend some days on Cormorant Island in the Broughton strait. This is an island between the north end of Vancouver Island and the BC mainland. There is a large First Nations Reserve there. Also a residential school which was converted to a hospital and which is now used for community projects. A part of the reserve has these Totems of the Kwakwaka’wakw with many totems dedicated to elders. Each morning when I walked to town for my morning paper and coffee I passed these amazing monuments and spent much time experiencing the peace and tranquility of the place and the silence of these obelisks and spirit beings staring at the Strait and Vancouver island and towards the Pacific beyond. The totems, once erected, are left alone and eventually decay and return to the earth from whence they came.