Totem Poles scatter the lands of the Pacific Northwest; some are modern creations and other totem poles are decayed by time and weather. For decades after colonization, the creation of these ...

The first totem pole raising event since 38 years ago will happen this month, July 18-20. Many people are traveling to ...

The film follows 16-year-old Richard Harris, a Gitskan Indian, as he assists his father, Walter, a master totem pole carver, ...

A totem pole trail is in the making as the Sealaska Heritage Institute during the past weekend began raising the first 12 of 30 poles that will line the Juneau waterfront at Overstreet Park. On ...

Totem poles have become some of the most iconic symbols of “Native American culture,” but it's important to understand their origin and to honor their ongoing significance for the clans to ...

On Friday morning, shoppers in Juneau noticed the absence of two totem poles that had been at Fred Meyer’s main entrance for approximately 40 years.

Totem poles in the colonial imagination -- On commerce and cultures : explorers and merchants encounter carved columns -- The rise and fall of totem poles : the dynamics of settler colonialism and the ...

The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office says its detectives found and returned two totem poles that were stolen from the Quileute Tribe.

Over the last decade, several hundred Native American students and their families helped design, carve, and paint a series of totem poles for the Eugene 4J School District's NATIVES program. Five ...

Totem poles, those giant red cedar poles elaborately carved with images of animals and people, can be thought of as three-dimensional family histories; histories that began in the time before ...

News / Northwest Two Pike Place totem poles to be removed — but maybe not for good Despite controversy, the 50-foot cedar poles could be reinstalled before Seattle's Victor Steinbrueck Park ...

The totems were proclaimed by the Olympian Stone Company of Seattle to be the only cement, or concrete, totem poles in the world at the time.