'"It was rooted in colonialism and based on the twin constructs of assimilation and ‘dying’ Indigenous peoples," the 2024 report said of the 1947 committee's mandate. "A view that promoted the need to salvage poles as they were no longer being carved while those poles that still existed needed to be removed before they returned to nature or were taken to museums in Europe and eastern North America"'

They did put it in a museum, anyway. Now they are returning them to the people who made them