Mural, totem pole symbols of needed change

Les Cardinal, of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, wrote “Enough is enough” as his contribution to a mural that has travelled along with a totem pole that was erected at the Beaver Lake Cree Nation in September. The Lummi people, based in Washington State, gifted the totem pole as a symbol of shared responsibility to BLCN on the front lines of the expansion of the Canadian tar sands. Cardinal was among a handful of people at the Alberta Legislature on Sept. 5, when the group stopped in Edmonton. “There’s a  lot of truth in this mural when you actually look at it. A lot of people’s hearts are going into it, a lot of people’s feelings,” said Cardinal. “When it comes right down to it, it’s time to stand up and say, Enough is enough.’”