Some groups painted their poles while others did not. The two most common colors on the Northwest Coast totem poles are red and black. These colors have different significance and meaning among First ...

EVERETT — A piece of Everett some 650 years in the making will soon make its way to Alaska. In January, local Tlingit artist Fred Fulmer began carving an 11-foot, 400-pound totem pole at his ...

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… ...

In "The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History," authors Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass write about how the totem pole was discovered, praised, denigrated, anthropologized, romanticized and finally ...

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 ...

Alison Bremner / Courtesy Steinbrueck / Native Gallery Sgwaayaans, a Kaigani Haida artist, carved his first totem pole at age 19. Last year, he made his first traditional canoe, from a red cedar ...

This week, in the Potomac Atrium of the Smithsonian's Museum of the American Indian, the renowned 59-year-old Tsimshian totem carver and his son, David R. Boxley, 30, are re-creating the magical ...

A totem pole created by Lummi Nation carver Jewell James will travel from Whatcom County to Washington D.C. on a 16,000-mile journey that takes it to dozens of sacred sites across the U.S. this ...

SEATTLE -- For more than a century, totem poles have adorned parts of Seattle. The carvings are in city parks and on university campuses. Native American and other cultural art is prevalent office ...

The totem pole that honors his sister-in-law will stand as a proud reminder, he says, not just to her, but to what she represented: James, through her dancing and songs, was a kindred spirit in ...

Galanin, who has already helped complete one of the totem poles on Kootéeyaa Deiyí, has been training for this work since he was young. “We always say a totem pole takes 15,000 years to make ...