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.

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.

The original Kwa-Ma-Rolas totem pole – which, again, is not the one that stands there now – was donated to the city of Chicago in 1929 by Kraft Foods founder James L. Kraft.

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.

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.

“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.

The pole is one of the first 12 of 30 totem poles to be raised to create a Kootéeyaa Deiyí (totem pole trail) lining the waterfront in Juneau. (Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire) ...

Chicago - The Field Museum of Natural History will give one of its most treasured items, a 8.1-metre totem pole, to an American Indian tribe that asked for its return. The totem pole was taken as part ...

WASHINGTON — Tlingit leaders dedicated a storied totem pole in Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s office on Tuesday. The 10-foot tall, 900-pound totem pole, which is on loan from the Sealaska ...