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House of Ni’isjoohl memorial pole returns from Scotland to the Nass Valley

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House of Ni’isjoohl memorial pole returns from Scotland to the Nass Valley
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The Nisg̱a’a Nation celebrated the return of the House of Ni’isjoohl memorial pole in September 2023. Commissioned by matriarch Joanna Moody in 1860, the carved pole spent 94 years in Scotland. The image shows a Nisg̱a’a delegation with the pole in Edinburgh before transport.

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