Excursions : toward an intercultural biography of the totem pole -- pt. 1. Totem poles in the colonial imagination -- On commerce and cultures : explorers and merchants encounter carved columns -- The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Totem poles are unique to the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. The ones around Ketchikan are particularly old and ...

A totem pole removed from an Indigenous burial site more than a century ago and kept on display in a Canadian museum has been repatriated to the Nuxalk Nation. More than 100 Nuxalkmc traveled more ...

A 25-foot totem pole, intricately hand-carved and painted by Native Americans, arrived in the nation’s capital Wednesday afternoon after a two-week cross-country journey from Washington state, as part ...

This story has been updated with additional information. 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.