Totem poles have become some of the most iconic symbols of “Native American culture,” but it's important to understand their origin and to honor their ongoing significance for the clans to ...

THE STRANGE STORIES THE TOTEM POLE TELLS; Family History, Religion, Tribal Legends, Heraldry Form the Subjects Pictured Forth in Sign Language on the Gaudily Colored Emblems Used by People of Alaska.

Bremerton residents Robert Wagner and his daughter, Stephanie, who had lived in Port Orchard for 27 years, saw the totem pole when they got off the foot ferry to visit a family member in town.

Over the last decade, several hundred Native American students and their families helped design, carve, and paint a series of totem poles for the Eugene 4J School District's NATIVES program. Five ...

Totem pole journey highlights Native Americans' fight against ... with some sprinkling tobacco on the pole as a symbol of the ... we are all in this as a human family,''' said Frederick ...

A totem pole commissioned almost 60 years ago by B.C. ­Ferries has been given to the family of the man who carved it, and will be placed at his grave to honour his legacy. The four-metre-tall ...

The totem pole is being carefully prepared for a 4,200-mile journey. On the ground floor of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, one of its biggest displays is being carefully prepared ...