Totem Poles scatter the lands of the Pacific Northwest; some are modern creations and other totem poles are decayed by time and weather. For decades after colonization, the creation of these tribal ...

The soaring native art form of the totem pole by North America’s first peoples may be found throughout the northwestern United States and Alaska, which will celebrate 50 years of statehood in 2009.

Ketchikan, Alaska is known as the "totem pole capital of the world" with over 80 poles. Totem poles are unique to the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest and represent family history, stories, ...

A totem pole removed from an Indigenous burial site more than a century ago and kept on display in a Canadian museum has been repatriated to the Nuxalk Nation. More than 100 Nuxalkmc traveled more ...

The totem pole that honors his sister-in-law will stand as a proud reminder, he says, not just to her, but to what she represented: James, through her dancing and songs, was a kindred spirit in that ...

“The totem pole,” Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass write at the start of their new book, “is not all things to all people.” That may be an understatement. In “The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History,” ...

For the House of Tears Carvers, totem poles are more than masterful works of art – they’re a medium for storytelling, for raising consciousness, for healing. The group of artisans from the Lummi ...

"Totem poles” refer to monumental carvings made from tree trunks by Indigenous peoples from the northern Northwest Coast, in what is now Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. These impressive poles ...