Residential school pole touring Island before Vancouver installation
A blackened column carved with children’s faces, representing lives lost at Indian residential schools, has been created by acclaimed Kwakiutl First Nation master carver Stanley Hunt.
Conversations about honouring and remembering began between the carver and the Vancouver businessman. The idea for the residential school memorial pole was born, and Bergen set out to fundraise for it, while Hunt began to work on concept drawings.“I tried to talk to my family about this. There’s no words in any language anywhere in the world that could possibly be put together to make any of that make sense,” he told Windspeaker.com.
At 18-feet tall, the pole holds Raven sitting atop, embracing the children. The column is covered with rows of children’s faces, each one unique, each one expressing loss and sorrow. It’s washed in black to represent this part of Canadian /Indigenous history. Orange bands separate the rows of children’s faces and honours the Every Child Matters movement.
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