Local A 25-foot Native American totem pole arrives in D.C. after a journey to sacred lands across U.S. Many who touched the pole during its journey 'burst into tears because they could feel the ...

A 24-foot-tall totem pole will travel thousands of miles from Washington state to the nation's capital to raise awareness of Native American issues and sacred sites.

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 ...

Roland Jerome of Stow, an American Indian with the Micmac tribe, stood in front of the totem pole for a blessing. Chief Don Manidougekek, of Dighton and the Abenaki tribe, smudged it with incense ...

Totem poles were especially popular in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s, when many Americans sought uniquely “American” art forms that could not be traced to Europe.

Totem poles were created by the indigenous people of North America’s Pacific Northwest as a way to document their history, with each massive carving recalling notable events and commemorating… ...

The totem pole is being returned to descendants of its original owners in Cape Fox, Alaska, which is a sacred spot for many in the 16,000-member Tlingit nation.

The Boxleys' totem pole, "The Eagle and the Chief," is currently being completed by the artists on public view in the Potomac Atrium of the American Indian Museum. Photo by Katherine Fogden ...

Native American artist David Boxley is from the Tsimshian tribe in Alaska, and he and his son work on one of the many totem poles they have created to keep their native culture alive, at the ...

A Native American totem pole that has been used as a coat stand in a backroom in Britain for the past 30 years could be worth more than £100,000. The 6ft 7ins sculpture was bought by wealthy ...

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 ...