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 ...

"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 ...

Two expert carvers, Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Hereditary Chief David Knox and his cousin, Mervyn Child, travelled to Victoria to repair a century-old totem pole at the Royal B.C. Museum.

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 ...

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 ...

The rural California town of Weed hits hard times, California's wine industry is being crushed and more big stories ...

FAIRBANKS - Few artworks of Native North American cultures inspire as much fascination as the totem poles carved by coastal peoples indigenous to the lands stretching from Seattle to the Alaska ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A town landmark in Weed since the early 1960s, the totem pole in the Ray’s Food Place parking lot got knocked down. Now there’s ...

A traditionally-carved and intricately-painted totem pole, made from a 400-year-old red cedar trunk, arrived at the National Mall this week on its final stop of the “Red Road to DC.” During a blessing ...

This incident follows other recent losses for the town, including a historic saloon fire and major business closures. A town landmark in Weed since the early 1960s, the totem pole in the Ray’s Food ...