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Fred Meyer totem poles get a second chance at life
On Friday morning, shoppers in Juneau noticed the absence of two totem poles that had been at Fred Meyer’s main entrance for approximately 40 years. Tlingit twin carvers Mick and Rick Beasley ...
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Introduction to the Tlingit Culture and Repatriation
Among them were the Saanya Kwaan Tlingit of Cape Fox. In 1899, the Harriman Expedition removed numerous objects, including totem poles and other crest objects, from the Cape Fox village which they ...
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A Years-Long Collaboration Sees a Traditional Tlingit Tribal House Return to Glacier Bay
People have lived in the area around modern-day Glacier Bay National Park, along Alaska’s rugged southern coastline, for at ...
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Living stories: The Alaska Native attractions you see aboard an Indigenous-owned small cruise ship
The country’s only Indigenous-owned cruise line. Founded in 1970 by Bob and Betty Allen when they renovated an old boat that ...
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Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
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 ...
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Ray Wesley Poles
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 ...
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Alaska Natives Before Statehood
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 ...