"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 ...

A totem pole removed from an Indigenous burial site ... to generation makes you so proud to be Indigenous.” Recently, most large gatherings in Indigenous communities have been for funerals ...

It is the first totem pole to ... and C$600 for the pole - estimated to be about C$7,000 and C$10,000 today - and Mr Barbeau obliged. In the summer of 1929, when most Nisga'a people were away ...

PORT ORCHARD — Thirty-four years after the wood totem pole at the waterfront of Port Orchard was carved by Frank Smith of the Makah Tribe in 1989, his grandson, Bill Martin Jr., continued his ...