Coast Salish art is in demand and transforming Vancouver’s public art sphere

For decades, Indigenous artists from Vancouver’s local nations who wanted to make a living found the main path to success was to create something that looked like what non-Indigenous people recognized as “their” art.Totem poles. Face masks or murals with stylized Haida- or Kwakiutl-like designs from British Columbia’s north. Baskets. More totem poles.