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.

the artist was awarded the rare honor of having a small planet named after him by two amateur astronomers from Hokkaido. Fukuro, erected as part of a trio totem poles Sunazawa titled “Shiko no ...

Totem poles were especially popular in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s, when many Americans sought uniquely “American” art forms that could not be traced to Europe. This was also ...

artists produced many smaller poles, keeping the artistic traditions alive. In 1951, the Indian Act was revised and the ban on potlatching was dropped, rendering the celebration and raising of totem ...

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

Totem poles are important symbols for BC Northwest Coast peoples. Several kinds of totem poles were carved by First Nations artists living along the central and northern coast of British Columbia. A ...

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 ...