Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Totem poles are unique to the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. The ones around Ketchikan are particularly old and ...

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 ...

FAIRBANKS - Few artworks of Native North American cultures inspire as much fascination as the totem poles carved by coastal peoples indigenous to the lands stretching from Seattle to the Alaska ...

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 ...

According to Tlingit mythology, long ago a Raven wished to marry Fog Woman, the daughter of Chief Fog-Over-the-Salmon. The chief granted his permission, and Fog Woman and Raven lived happily for two ...

Following the Nuxalk Nation's initial request for repatriation in 2019, the Royal British Columbia Museum finally repatriated the long-lost Snow family totem pole to Nuxalk territory last week. A ...

The totem poles outside Jim's Ash Trail Store have always attracted attention -- but now it's a different kind. And if customers aren't drawn to the cursive signature on the decorative beam, owner Jim ...

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, ...

"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 ...