Five towering totem poles will soon be placed at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center, representing Tlingit & Haida clans.

In contrast, figures carved on monumental poles on the Northwest Coast depict animals or other ... in the 1940s for Totem Bight Park, Ketchikan, Alaska.

This pole is not the one being sent to Alaska ... a salmon and a thunderbird. The animals alternate direction to give a sense of balance. He made the totem pole in the Tlingit style, as seen ...

Installing a set of totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center highlighting local Alaska Natives may be a worthy idea, but numerous tribal residents expressed concerns during an initial ...

The U.S. Forest Service plans to raise five new totem poles – called kootéeyaa in ... Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska and the Forest Service unveiled the plan.

president of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, wrote in a post on his Facebook page Tuesday. “For generations, totem poles have served as powerful ...