Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Totem poles are unique to the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. The ones around Ketchikan are particularly old and ...

Following the Nuxalk Nation's initial request for repatriation in 2019, the Royal British Columbia Museum finally repatriated the long-lost Snow family totem pole to Nuxalk territory last week. A ...

"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 poles ...

A totem pole removed from an Indigenous burial site more than a century ago and kept on display in a Canadian museum has been repatriated to the Nuxalk Nation. More than 100 Nuxalkmc traveled more ...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Retirees Max and Nona Meinen got an unpleasant surprise three years ago when they returned to their ranch southwest of Fort Worth, Texas, after a winter vacation. A gas company ...

VANCOUVER, B.C. – A world-renowned totem pole, regarded by native people whose ancestors carved it more than a century ago as an “umbilical cord” to their history, has been returned to British ...

PORT ANGELES — A totem pole depicting sacred tribal symbols received blessings in Port Angeles on Tuesday before its journey this summer to Washington, D.C. Members of the Lower Elwha Klallam, ...

Ed Galloway’s Totem Pole Park in Foyil, Oklahoma (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) FOYIL, Okla. — In 1937, art teacher Ed Galloway began his retirement project: a 90-foot-tall totem pole ...

For the House of Tears Carvers, totem poles are more than masterful works of art – they’re a medium for storytelling, for raising consciousness, for healing. The group of artisans from the Lummi ...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska – An arched sign stretching between two city blocks welcomes travelers to “Alaska’s first city” and the “salmon capital of the world.” But Ketchikan, the first port on many Alaska ...