He is also a descendant of a family of artists including his grandfather Mungo Martin, and his father Henry Hunt.

This joint Canada/Argentina production chronicles Stanley's 2012 monumental 40+ foot pole-carving project which replaced a pole installed in 1964 in Plaza Canadá, Buenos Aires, Argentina, carved by his famous father, Henry Hunt.

[9] During the ban Martin carved two totem poles for the Canadian Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

These were a sensation and contained a subtle message protesting the ban: at the top of the pole, two thunderbirds spread their wings standing on the heads of giant grizzly bears.

While resident carver he built on site his own big house and collected and preserved 400 songs and oral histories.

[11] In another example of preserving his family's carving culture, in 2010 Stanley, his wife Lavina, and their artist son Jason Henry Hunt traveled to Rancho Mirage California to restore his father's 30-foot totem pole which was commissioned by Walter Annenberg and Leonore Annenberg in 1976 and resides at their former home, the Sunnylands estate.