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From Arlis Feser Hutchinson I agree with Matt McMillan and Doug Hanneman’s comment in their editorial (Sunday, May 15 Leader) that we should all applaud the Hutchinson Public Arts Commission&… ...
The first totem pole raising event since 38 years ago will happen this month, July 18-20. Many people are traveling to ...
A totem pole that has played a colorful role in University of Northern Colorado history since 1914 will return to its Alaska home this fall. The Tlingit Indians crafted the Brown Bear Totem, which UNC ...
For Haida artist Robert Davidson, the idea of carving a totem pole was his grand, loving gesture to his grandparents' generation to allow them to celebrate in the old ways they knew one more time ...
A new memorial totem pole is being raised at the former site of the Miller Bay Indian Hospital, located just outside of Prince Rupert. Mike Epp is a Tsimshian carver who explains the totem and it's ...
The totem pole, the Boxleys noted, is not a religious icon, but was traditionally a residential signpost erected outside a house to tell about who lived within.
Totem Pole Taken 94 Years Ago Begins 4,000-Mile Journey Home The 36-foot tall memorial pole has spent almost a century in a Scottish museum. Now it will be returned to the Nisga’a Nation in Canada.
EVERETT — A piece of Everett some 650 years in the making will soon make its way to Alaska. In January, local Tlingit artist Fred Fulmer began carving an 11-foot, 400-pound totem pole at his ...
The totem poles were crafted and placed in the park in 1984 to honor Washington's Indigenous community. The poles previously ...
Published by Douglas & McIntyre, 384 pp, $60, hardcover Words like seminal, definitive, and encyclopedic are bound to accrue to The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History. Its American authors, art ...
The totem pole went missing in the late 1800s after members of the Nuxalk Nation moved from where they were living to avoid a smallpox outbreak. It was later found in the Royal B.C. Museum.
Roughly halfway into its journey from the Pacific Coast to Dull Knife, a Lummi Indian Nation totem pole stopped for some spiritual refueling in Missoula on Friday.