Editing Totem pole (section)

===Indian New Deal===
The [[Indian New Deal]] of the 1930s strongly promoted native arts and crafts in the United States, and in the totem pole they discovered an art that was widely appreciated by white society.  In Alaska the Indian Division of the [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] restored old totem poles, copied those beyond repair, and carved new ones.  The Indian Arts and Crafts Board, a U.S. federal government agency, facilitated their sale to the general public. The project was lucrative, but anthropologists complained that it stripped the natives of their traditional culture and stripped away the meaning of the totem poles.<ref>Aldona Jonaitis, "Totem Poles And The Indian New Deal," ''European Contributions to American Studies'' (1990) Vol. 18, pp. 267–77.</ref><ref>Robert Fay Schrader, ''The Indian Arts & Crafts Board: An Aspect of New Deal Indian Policy'' (University of New Mexico Press, 1983.)</ref>

Another example occurred in 1938, when the [[U.S. Forest Service]] began a totem pole restoration program in Alaska.<ref>Garfield and Forrest, p. v.</ref> Poles were removed from their original places as funerary and crest poles to be copied or repaired and then placed in parks based on English and French garden designs to demystify their meaning for tourists.<ref name=Moore>{{cite speech |title=Decoding Totems in the New Deal |author=Emily Moore |event=Wooshteen Kana<u>x</u>tulaneegí Haa At Wuskóowu / Sharing Our Knowledge, A conference of Tlingit Tribes and Clans: Haa eetí ḵáa yís / For Those Who Come After Us |location=Sitka, Alaska |date=31 March 2012|url=http://ankn.uaf.edu/ClanConference2/course/view.php?id=4 |access-date=31 March 2012}}</ref>

In England at the side of [[Virginia Water Lake]], in the south of [[Windsor Great Park]], there is a {{convert|100|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} Canadian totem pole that was given to [[Queen Elizabeth II]] to commemorate the centenary of [[British Columbia]]. In Seattle, Washington, a Tlingit funerary [[Pioneer Square totem pole|totem pole was raised in Pioneer Square]] in 1899, after being taken from an Alaskan village.<ref name=Graves>{{cite news | author=Jen Graves | title = A Totem Pole Made of Christmas Lights: Bringing Superwrongness to Life | newspaper = The Stranger | location = Seattle, Washington | date = 10 January 2012 | url = http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/a-totem-pole-made-of-christmas-lights/Content?oid=11587201 | access-date = 12 January 2012}}</ref> In addition, the totem pole collections in Vancouver's [[Stanley Park]], Victoria's [[Thunderbird Park (Victoria, British Columbia)|Thunderbird Park]], and the [[Museum of Anthropology at UBC|Museum of Anthropology]] at the [[University of British Columbia]] were removed from their original locations around British Columbia.<ref name="library.ubc.ca">{{cite web|url=http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/aboriginal/|title=UBC Archives – Celebrating Aboriginal Heritage Month: Mungo Martin and UBC's Early Totem Pole Collection|website=www.library.ubc.ca|access-date=2020-01-27}}</ref> In Stanley Park, the original Skedans Mortuary Pole has been returned to Haida Gwaii and is now replaced by a replica. In the late 1980s, the remaining carved poles were sent to various museums for preservation, with the park board commissioning and loaning replacement carvings.<ref name="library.ubc.ca"/><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSueEr81v0IC|title=Looking at Totem Poles|last=Stewart|first=Hilary|date=2009|publisher=D & M Publishers|isbn=978-1-926706-35-1|language=en}} Includes a history of the poles in Thunderbird Park and their restoration.</ref>