"Totem poles” refer to monumental carvings made from tree trunks by Indigenous peoples from the northern Northwest Coast, in what is now Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. These impressive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Totem Poles are carved wooden pillars made by the First Nations of the Northwest Coast. Totem poles are important symbols for BC Northwest Coast peoples. Several kinds of totem poles were carved by ...

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. Forest Service, in connection with a co-stewardship ...

It’s a surreal panorama of orcas, totem poles, and hockey-loving hipsters. Facing the Pacific Ocean and burgeoning with huge cedar and spruce trees, the metropolitan area of more than 1,040 ...

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

The U.S. Forest Service plans to raise five new totem poles – called kootéeyaa in Lingít – at the Mendenhall Glacier. At an open house on Wednesday, it was clear that the kootéeyaa are ...