Walmart Plaza Welcoming Figures
Welcoming figures and Thunderbird atop the Wild Woman of the Woods.
Liǧʷiɫdaxʷ Peoples
Carved to stand as a reminder that the plaza remains Wei Wai Kum land. T´łisala, the Lik̓ʷala word for “sun,” is a figure from the sky who became the first ancestor of several Kwakwaka’wakw clans. Adjacent is a pole featuring the Thunderbird atop the Wild Woman of the Woods, known by many names including Tsonoqua and Dzunuk’wa.
Indigenous Tourism BC acknowledges that it is situated on operates on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation).
