Raven struggled to bring home food ... Today, this legend is memorialized in the most prominent totem pole in Ketchikan, Alaska: the 55-foot-tall Chief Johnson pole. The current iteration of ...

More than 600 people gathered on Sunday for the ceremony, raising Alaska’s first totem pole dedicated to all Alaska ... are also carved in the ears of the raven, which is “showing them how ...

A few families claim Raven, who brought light to the world ... The dedication and raising of a totem pole is accompanied by a great potlatch, a public feast often involving lavish gift giving.

The English moniker of “totem pole” is the most common term for these carvings, but it is also misleading. “Totem” is derived from “dodem,” an Anishinaabe word from the Great Lakes ...

The Kakaso'las totem pole has been on loan to Vancouver's largest ... Bak'was (the wild man of the woods), Dzunuk'wa (giant of the woods) and a raven. Kakaso'las was carved by Kwakwaka ...

Raven-masked dancers wove through the audience ... Throughout, Boxley’s red-cedar totem pole stood sentinel above this gathering place. The purpose was dual and simultaneous: to bless and ...

The Kakaso’las totem pole was carved by Neel in 1955 ... wild man of the woods), Dzunuk’wa (giant of the woods), and a raven at the base. The pole was carved at Neel’s Ferguson Point ...

The brown bear and raven pole were meant to honor Tlingit people, and be welcoming figures. He said the prevailing winds and the dust from the parking lot have weathered the totem 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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Since 1929, a totem pole has stood sentry along the lakefront on the east side of DuSable Lake Shore Drive at Addison Street – though it has not been the same one all along.