Totem poles, those giant red cedar poles elaborately carved with images of animals and people, can be thought of as three-dimensional family histories; histories that began in the time before ...

In 1951, the Indian Act was revised and the ban on potlatching was dropped, rendering the celebration and raising of totem poles legal once again. Totem poles were again carved and erected in the ...

Over the last decade, several hundred Native American students and their families helped design, carve, and paint a series of ...

Sam Brown was driving along Cedar Street in Helena one day when something at the intersection of Cooke Street “spoke” to him.

Eugene School District 4J announced April 23 it would be removing its totem poles across the district after Native community ...

Robin Young’s totem pole in West Seattle; in 2009, it was recovered along with a second stolen totem, Renton’s Henry Moses Honoring Pole, which was also put back up ...

There are several different bosses at various stages of a run, from massive shadowy heads to sentient clusters ... of ...

Barbeau, Marius. 1929. Totem Poles of the Gitksan, Upper Skeena River, British Columbia. Department of Mines (Government of Canada) and the National Museum of Canada. The information in this book is ...

OTOINEPPU, Hokkaido--“Fukuro” (Owl), a 6-meter-high totem pole created by the renowned late contemporary Ainu sculptor Bikky Sunazawa, was toppled by winds here in late April and left to ...

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.