A totem pole carved and put on tour to bring attention to the potential risks fossil fuel pipelines and shipping terminal projects present to Native American communities, and how climate change threatens the world at large, made a stop in Vancouver on Monday night.

The pole is a symbol of tribal resistance to the oil terminal project proposed at the Port of Vancouver, the Millennium Bulk Terminals coal export proposal in Longview and the methanol refinery proposed for Kalama by Northwest Innovation Works, according to Columbia Riverkeeper, an environmental organization that helped organize Monday’s event.

Guests came to the Vancouver Community Library and joined a blessing and a presentation about the project.

Jewell James, head carver with the House of Tears Carvers group and part of the Lummi Treaty and Sovereignty Protection Office, said the totem poles are a means to protest and to raise awareness for different causes.

Lummi Nation members are traveling across the country with the totem pole to draw attention to proposed fossil fuel export terminals, pipelines and other facilities and their potential environmental impacts.