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News Reports from Witsuwit'en Yin Tah: Reconnecting to Witsutwit'en History - Restoring Relations with the K'ëgit Totem Pole

Amanda Follett Hosgood wrote an amazing article on the project for The Tyee. Published 3 January 2025How a Wet’suwet’en Totem Pole Wound Up in Paris: Inside a generational journey of reconnection and education.https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/01/03/Wetsuweten-Totem-Pole-Paris Ann Marie Murnaghan is profiled in York University's Y-File. Published 8 January 2025York U professor champions Indigenous cultural preservationhttps://www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/01/08/york-u-professor-champions-indigenous-cultural-preservation/ Joanne Connauton on […]

Witsuwit'en Yin Tah: Reconnecting to Witsutwit'en History - Restoring Relations with the K'ëgit Totem Pole located in Paris, France

A delegation of Witsuwit’en hereditary chiefs, elders, artists and youth from C’inegh Lhay Yikh (House of Many Eyes) of the Likhsilyu Clan (Small Frog) travelled to Paris, France in the third week of October, 2024 in search of their history and its connection to the Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac Museum. In 1938, Kurt Seligmann, […]

Archival Research in Paris in Advance of the Olympics

In June 2024, while the Olympics were being set up across the city of Paris, France, Ann Marie Murnaghan began the archival research for the project. At the Museum of National History (Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle https://www.mnhn.fr/en ), she collected hundreds of images from scrapbooks, publications, letters, and important documents relating to the Kegit Pole (Wit’suwit’en), and […]

Joanne Connauton presents her preliminary findings at the American Association of Geographers’ meeting

Joanne Connauton presents her preliminary findings at the American Association of Geographers’ meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii on April 16, 2024.

Ann Marie Murnaghan presents a paper on rematriation at the Colloquium in Graduate Geography at York University

Ann Marie Murnaghan presents a paper on rematriation at the Colloquium in Graduate Geography at York University on November 4, 2023 entitled Rematriation: A model for a decolonising approach to research in communities.