The soaring native art form of the totem pole by North America’s first peoples may be found throughout the northwestern United States and Alaska, which will celebrate 50 years of statehood in 2009.

"It gives my heart great peace that my ancestors can go home," tribe member Eva Rowan said of the returned totem pole A tribal totem poll taken from Alaska by Drew Barrymore‘s grandfather has been ...

Forth 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 ...

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 ...

The soaring native art form of the totem pole by North America's first peoples may be found throughout the northwestern United States and Alaska. Alaska will celebrate 50 years of statehood in 2009.

SALISBURY – As a way to commemorate his father’s life, Mark Scott recently relocated a totem pole that his father built more than 20 years ago. Scott and his wife, Cathy, moved the totem pole from the ...

WASHINGTON - A 5,000-pound totem pole that was hand-carved by Native Americans is coming from Washington state to be on display in the nation's capital this summer after a journey that organizers hope ...

A totem pole trail is in the making as the Sealaska Heritage Institute during the past weekend began raising the first 12 of 30 poles that will line the Juneau waterfront at Overstreet Park. On ...

A new 15-foot totem pole that marries traditional carving styles with contemporary techniques was erected Monday at The Field Museum, replacing a pole that was returned to an Alaskan tribe. The new ...

“The totem pole,” Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass write at the start of their new book, “is not all things to all people.” That may be an understatement. In “The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History,” ...

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 ...