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 Observer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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, ...

With every chisel strike, Haida carver TJ Young brought history to life with the 360-degree totem pole standing at the Sealaska Heritage Square — a towering testament to culture, storytelling, ...

From 2009 exhibit labels: Pole identified as carved from Western red cedar (Thuja plicata). Haida Totem Pole collected in 1904, Tanu, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. Crests, from ...

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 ...