Concerns raised about accurate representation of area’s Native peoples, project’s sudden announcement ...

"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 ...

At an open house Wednesday, some of the people the Mendenhall Glacier poles are meant to honor said they should be included ...

artists produced many smaller poles, keeping the artistic traditions alive. In 1951, the Indian Act was revised and the ban on potlatching was dropped, rendering the celebration and raising of totem ...

president of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, wrote in a post on his Facebook page Tuesday. “For generations, totem poles have served as powerful ...