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

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Pacific Northwest tribe is traveling nearly 5,000 miles across Canada and the United States with a 22-foot-tall totem pole on a flatbed truck in a symbolic ...

Totem poles, however, are specific cultural practices belonging to certain tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, including the Tsimshian, Haida, Tlingit, Kwakwaka’wakw, Heiltsuk, Haisla ...

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.

The totem pole has journeyed to communities along the West Coast, in Canada and across the country to Pittsburgh, where it was featured in an exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

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 ...

In January, local Tlingit artist Fred Fulmer began carving an 11-foot, 400-pound totem pole at his north Everett home for the Petersburg Indian Association, a tribe in Southeast Alaska.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Since 1929, a totem pole has stood sentry along the lakefront on the east side of DuSable Lake Shore Drive at Addison Street – though it has not been the same one all along.

A 25-foot, 2,600 pound totem pole stands tall on the northwest corner of Emily Carr's Vancouver campus. The project was by Tlingit, Tahltan and Maori carvers.

Totem pole information and facts were assembled with the aid and expertise of Terena Hunt, an Indigenous woman of Kwakwaka’wakw and Tlingit heritage, born in Alert Bay, BC Canada.

“With today’s passing of that totem pole, we’re working together, all of us are working together to acknowledge our missing and murdered indigenous women, girls, people,” she said.