But 18th-century voyagers to Alaska and Vancouver Island described and illustrated poles in their records, indicating that totem poles were clearly a well-established tradition at that time.

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

Fulton Orozco At the Totem Heritage Center in Ketchikan, Alaska, Nathan Jackson wears ceremonial ... and telling oral histories through totem poles, ceremonial clothing and blankets, hand-carved ...

Installing a set of totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier Center highlighting local Alaska Natives may be a worthy idea, but ...

Nicholas Galanin and Gordon Greenwald will lead the carving of two additional totem poles for Juneau’s Kootéeyaa Deiyí, or Totem Pole Trail. Galanin, based in Sitka, and Greenwald, a Hoonah ...