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.

A totem pole trail is in the making as the Sealaska Heritage Institute during the past weekend began raising the first 12 of 30 poles that will line the Juneau waterfront at Overstreet Park.. On ...

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.

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 ...

Totem poles were created by the indigenous people of North America’s Pacific Northwest as a way to document their history, with each massive carving recalling notable events and commemorating… ...

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.

"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 ...

Totem Poles,'Present at the Creation' Since they were first noticed by European explorers in the 1700s, totem poles may have been misunderstood as frightening statues worshipped as gods.

Local A 25-foot Native American totem pole arrives in D.C. after a journey to sacred lands across U.S. Many who touched the pole during its journey 'burst into tears because they could feel the ...