Hoonah’s rich fishing history remembered through totem pole. The story of fishermen carved — “all of us in the past, all of us in the future, and all of us now.” ...

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Totem Pole Taken 94 Years Ago Begins 4,000-Mile Journey Home The 36-foot tall memorial pole has spent almost a century in a Scottish museum. Now it will be returned to the Nisga’a Nation in Canada.

A totem pole taken from the Nisga'a in 1929 is set to be rematriated, having travelled from the National Museum of Scotland back to northwestern B.C. ... fishing and harvesting season. ...

On a quiet October day, with no cruise ships in port, Noah Boos stood looking at a sign right next to a kootéeyaa, or totem pole, on Juneau’s waterfront. The sign breaks down what each of the ...

Museum curator Marius Barbeau had been eyeing the totem pole for some time. ... when most Nisga'a people were away working, hunting, or fishing, he and his team simply took it. The 11m (36ft) ...

The City of Hoonah and Huna Heritage Foundation unveiled the Fishermen’s Totem Pole near the boat harbor. “It’s welcoming everybody that comes into our bay, our harbor,” Dennis Gray, Sr. said.

And so after that point we consider that totem pole to have a living spirit in it and to be a relative. And so it's like bringing a family member home after being gone for almost 100 years," she said.