The smell of cedar and the sounds of singing filled the garden behind the Alaska Native Heritage Center during the raising of a totem pole ... On the pole, a bear mother holds her two cubs tightly ...

Two dozen Native American activists in 10 cars towing one totem pole across the country. While this protest caravan may seem small, its message to Congress is outsized: Give Indigenous peoples a ...

"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 ...

Watch Ted Trotta appraise a Zacherias Nicholas Haida Argillite totem pole, ca. 1890, in Alaska Native Heritage Center ... Beneath that, a fierce grizzly bear with wings, by the way, and a figure ...

MAHWAH — A 16-foot colorful totem pole made a visit ... who have transported the pole thousands of miles as a symbol of solidarity with other Native American communities in their fights against ...

The Native people, five men and one woman, were standing on the approximate spot where a totem pole bought from their ... Under the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation ...

The totem pole stood more than 10 feet tall and weighed ... For more than two hours, Native American and environmental activists joined on the Haw’s banks in Alamance County, singing and ...