Tall totem poles should ALL be removed, because they are a product of White Englishmen.
It was Captain Cook’s 3rd voyage that gave the NW indians the tools to make these tall racist poles of hatred.
Cook traded metal tools with the Indians. Then he told them to make racist, homophobic, intolerant statues as a symbol of peace with England.../s
Actually, it is true that Cook provided the tools that took the Totem Poles from short to tall.
I live in Southeast Alaska and have several Tlingit and Haida neighbors. They would disagree.
Notwithstanding, Seattelites in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries stole totems and took them to Seattle to display. A traditional Totem will last about a hundred years so most of the ones you see down there now are replicas. New ones are being made by native Alaskans to replace the ones that have succumbed to the elements . A rather large bone of contention these days is the emergence of non traditional themes in fake totem polls made by non Indians. We have one, recently unveiled, in front of our public library that has generated a little controversy. As you can see, it is not at all a traditional Tlingit or Haida totem with the subject matter being white man's nursery rhymes rather than Indian religious symbols
Photos at the link: http://taralee-alcock.squarespace.com/news/2018/3/13/storytellers-pole-progress?rq=library%20totem%20pole