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How could totem poles become relatively wildly popular throughout the US and Canada in the later half of the twentieth century for multiple kinds of pop culture/ political art and other uses? The idea is that nearly all of society takes to the concept. Not in a solely religious way specific to the tribes of the northwest, but in a broader way as a kind of popular public artwork that originated from indigenous cultures but became a very visible addition to public spaces.