"Totem poles” refer to monumental carvings made from tree trunks by Indigenous peoples from the northern Northwest Coast, in what is now Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. These impressive ...

Native American cultures in the Pacific Northwest carved totem poles that represented the various totems protecting that ...

artists produced many smaller poles, keeping the artistic traditions alive. In 1951, the Indian Act was revised and the ban on potlatching was dropped, rendering the celebration and raising of totem ...

Installing a set of totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor ... representing the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, which has a co-stewardship agreement ...

When Carl and Linda Muggli begin to carve the symbols of their totem poles, they trust that they are releasing the sacred spirits within. But they feel it before a single cut is made ...

president of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, wrote in a post on his Facebook page Tuesday. “For generations, totem poles have served as powerful ...