The inspiration for Voimapuu was the exhibition theme “Roots” and a visit to the University of Washington Burke Museum in Seattle. It was on display in the museum. The Tlingit of Harriman’s expedition in 1899 from Alaska carved columns stolen from people’s villages “the house post” (totem). The museum returned the Tlingit to Saanya Kwá in conjunction with a clan property healing ceremony in 2001. The Tlingit master carver, Nathan, was commissioned for the museum. Made by Jackson and his son, Stephen Jackson, new wooden posts depict the Tlingit Teikweidi, a clan story about a grizzly bear who marries a human hunter with Kaats and has children with him. The story about the “totem” led me to think about Finnish folklore with power trees and their meanings known in many ways. Mänty (honka, petäjä) is joined bear worship. Karsikkomanty was a tree dedicated to the dead, a pruned tree from which the dry branches were cut and the fresh ones were left. When a dignitary died, the lowest fresh branch of the tree was pruned and sacrificed at its root. When the wood came unbranched, it ended up as a “shrub” at the birth of people with the years of death on the wall of the room. We heard about the moon sleeping on construction sites and hearing the owner’s opinion about the habitability of the place at night. As a world tree, birch connects the depths of life and death. This work is a living power tree with family roots that must be rebuilt. People move from one place to another and power animals change over time. We need new ways to get attached to the home region. The power tree work recognizes and honors the Tlingit clans, the value of tradition and the present, ancestors and present, and the future.