A 26-foot totem pole that had resided for more than a century at Chicago’s Field Museum is standing tall again among descendants of the people who carved it, long ago, from a cedar tree (this… ...

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 ...

Just north of Washington, D.C., in a suburban park, stands a Tlingit totem pole. Scott Maxwell, a Juneau educator, made it his mission to find out why. Maxwell grew up in Potomac, Md., where he's ...

While standing in front of his tribe's totem pole, Tlingit Tribe member from Klawock, Alaska Jonathan Rowan speaks about the significance of the totem pole to his Tribe at the Honolulu Museum of ...

Two hundred painted Tlingit Indian dancers, draped with traditional robes adorned with likenesses of killer whales, eagles, ravens and bears, gave a rousing welcome home here Monday to a dozen muse… ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Nicholas Galanin can't wait to see the totem pole from far away. Galanin, the lead carver on a 40-foot Yanyeidi Wolf totem pole that will go up in Savikko Park on Douglas ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Clunk-clunk, clunk-clunk. A mallet pummels a chisel into wood. Then comes the dry rasp of a curved knife scraping the surface. Israel Shotridge stares at the bug-eyed socket he's just shaped into ...