Capital City Weekly Haida story headed to the international stage Old Massett totem pole raising revisited in Christopher Auchter’s documentary Now Is The Time By Alex Kurial Haida Gwaii ...

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 ...

In the next film from our Sundance 2020 series, two brothers carve their community’s first totem pole in nearly a century.

Tim Boyko said he carves totem poles in honour of this grandfather whose Haida name he shares.

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.

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.

Haida Totem Pole collected in 1904, Tanu, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. Crests, from top: Three Totem Pole Watchmen, Eagle, Sea Chief/Sea Anemone, Woman Holding Whale's Tail, ...

Installing up to five wooden totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center carved by local tribal artists is being proposed by the U.S. Forest Service, in connection with a co-stewardship ...

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The Sealaska Heritage Institute has invited master carvers from around Southeast Alaska to create 10 totem poles, which should start going up along Juneau’s waterfront next year.

The Sealaska Heritage Institute put up storyboards to protect the poles installed this year, after summer images of their mistreatment by tourists.