Picture this: you’re planning your next cruise vacation, but want to go somewhere other than the Caribbean. There are a lot ...

A new memorial totem pole is being raised at the former site of the Miller Bay Indian Hospital, located just outside of ...

Tongass is not only the largest temperate rain forest in the country, but the largest in the world. It's a thriving ...

Eugene School District 4J is removing five totem poles around the district this summer. Native community members have been trying to get their voices heard by the district, school board since 2021.

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 ...

With every chisel strike, Haida carver TJ Young brought history to life with the 360-degree totem pole standing at the Sealaska Heritage Square — a towering testament to culture, storytelling, ...

"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 ...

However, Vancouver and Victoria, B.C., have totem poles made by local tribes, but not many mauve or coral shades are seen. However, the forms in the concrete totem poles are pretty authentic ...

The totem pole legend began in 1960 when Nashville businessman Fred Harvey of Harvey's Department Stores brought the almost six-foot, 50-pound item back from a trip to Alaska and donated it.

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 ...

Totem poles are not traditional to this region, but rather to the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and western Canada. Graves adds that a non-native artist, James Bender, was the lead carver of the poles.