Over the last decade, several hundred Native American students and their families helped design, carve, and paint a series of ...

For the Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Nisga'a, Gitksan, Kwakiutl and other people living along the wooded shores and rivers of the Pacific Northwest, totem poles embody their tribal, clan ...

Eugene School District 4J announced April 23 it would be removing its totem poles across the district after Native community ...

The Canadian national, born to an indigenous father, is delighted to share his Tsimshian heritage with people in Hong Kong. The totem pole is an icon of First Nations - the collective term for ...

At the time of contact with Europeans, freestanding multiple-figure totem poles were only made by northern Northwest Coast peoples (Haida, Tlingit, Tsimshian). Large human welcome figures and interior ...

Tlingit and Tsimshian people are integral to that bond, honoring families, clans, and animal and supernatural beings, and telling oral histories through totem poles, ceremonial clothing and ...

The idea to shoot an ascent of the Totem Pole, a stone tower in Tasmania, came to adventure photographer Krystle Wright in a dream. Years later, as she dangled from a line she’d rigged across ...

Where he since joined the Tsimshian Haayuuk Dancers led by David Boxley a renowned ... also preparing for numerous shows and exhibits, including three totem poles. Regularly returning home to ...

Totem poles hold immense cultural significance for the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian peoples, who have lived around Ketchikan for centuries because they were drawn to the area's rich salmon runs.

Visitors learn the history of the Tsimshian’ migration from western ... From house posts to frontal poles, the totem trail highlights a variety of totems found throughout southeast Alaska.

The 4J District’s last totem pole installation was in November 2023 ... that many years ago they visited David Boxley, a renowned Tsimshian carver from Alaska. In this Oct. 10, 2018 photo ...