Native American cultures in the Pacific Northwest carved totem poles that represented the various totems protecting that tribe. Often at the top of the pole a thunderbird held a place of honor.

When Carl and Linda Muggli begin to carve the symbols of their totem poles, they trust that they are releasing the sacred spirits within. But they feel it before a single cut is made ...

The U.S. Forest Service plans to raise five new totem poles – called kootéeyaa in ... spaces like the glacier are inherently devoid of Indigenous people. “We were the natural landscape.

On Friday morning, shoppers in Juneau noticed the absence of two totem poles ... in scraping down the poles, brushing and repainting. “I want to involve a lot of our Native community, the ...

It is inspired by the Native American studies this fall, drawing from both the Indigenous totem poles in the pacific Northwest of the United States, and the formal greeting, or mihi, of the Maori ...

Installing a set of totem poles at ... equals absence of Indigenous people, that wild means that there was no one here.” Details about a proposed set of totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier ...

The totem poles honors Washington's Indigenous community ... recognizes Seattle’s Native American communities, and reflects the local Coast Salish culture. In an email, Schulkin said, "A ...

“The Last American Indian on Earth.” Stories of indigenous history and culture have been around for generations, in the elegant images made on hide calendars or carved into totem pole ...

Contrary to the beliefs of many early travelers, explorers and missionaries, the totem poles of the Northwest Coast were not worshiped by First Nations, nor are they depictions of gods. Totem poles ...

OTOINEPPU, Hokkaido--“Fukuro” (Owl), a 6-meter-high totem pole created by the renowned ... for his woodcarvings in the style of the Ainu indigenous people of Hokkaido and the Russian Far ...