and to honor their ongoing significance for the clans to which they belong. Totem poles carved by Charles Brown (Tlingit) in the 1940s for Totem Bight Park, Ketchikan, Alaska.

In January, local Tlingit artist Fred Fulmer began carving an 11-foot, 400-pound totem pole at his north Everett home for the Petersburg Indian Association, a tribe in Southeast Alaska.

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

We have a project and we are all dedicated to it.” Tlingit and Haida has endorsed the totem pole project. ”This project represents a significant step towards acknowledging and honoring the ...

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 ...

The U.S. Forest Service plans to raise five new totem poles – called kootéeyaa in ... as soon as leaders from the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska and the ...

Michael is of the Nisga'a, Tlingit and Tsimshian Nation ... also preparing for numerous shows and exhibits, including three totem poles. Regularly returning home to Kincolith each year Michael still ...

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 ...

To understand why these clans did accept the apology in full is also to understand Tlingit apologetic tradition.

Two of the larger groups were the Tlingit and Haida ... They were famed for their totem poles and their potlatches, gatherings of friends and family to celebrate important milestones in an ...