Old Massett totem pole raising revisited in Christopher Auchter’s documentary Now Is The Time ...

Culture Indigenous Art Media In ‘Haida Modern,’ the Story of the First Totem Pole Raised in Over a Century We spoke to the remarkable artist who made it happen, and the creators of a new film ...

In her introduction, Jonaitis offers a quick glimpse at the history of totem pole building, noting that the practice originated with the Tsimshian and Haida people prior to contact with Europeans ...

As Haida people, they returned to their community a pole monumental in scale and significance. A Haida renaissance had begun. A 1970 film titled “ This Was the Time ” documented that occasion ...

His first, in 2014, accompanied a totem pole he made for the Stollery Children’s Hospital as it travelled 1,760 kilometres from Masset in northern Haida Gwaii to Edmonton.

In 1789, Capt. John Meares became the first European to make note of a free-standing pole on Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands), the art form’s most likely place of origin.

From 1938-1942 more than 200 Tlingit and Haida men carved totem poles and cleared land for the Civilian Conservation Corps in an effort to create “totem parks” the federal government hoped ...

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. Alaska will celebrate 50 years of statehood in 2009.

The destruction of the community’s totem poles was part of the systemic obliteration of Haida songs, ceremonies, and culture that had occurred over the previous decades. Photo by courtesy of NFB ...

The institute has invited master carvers from around Southeast to create 10 totem poles representing Lingít, Haida ... are caretakers of the culture — to ensure that it’s a piece of art, ...

FORT COLLINS — A Colorado State University art professor shares a special kinship with the American Indians she grew up with in Alaska and is helping preserve and celebrate their unique art form ...

This spring, Sealaska Heritage Institute installed 12 kootéeyaa along Juneau’s waterfront. They were carved by Lingít, Haida and Tsimshian artists from clans across the region.. The ...