In January, local Tlingit artist Fred Fulmer began carving an 11-foot, 400-pound totem pole at his north Everett home for the Petersburg Indian Association, a tribe in Southeast Alaska.

"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 ...

The last time Jan Budris saw Linda Muggli, she knew something was wrong. Budris recalls asking Muggli if she would be joining ...

Totem poles were again carved and erected in the communities along the coast. Large poles and monumental sculptures carved from red and yellow cedar were also used as house corner posts, entrance ...

Installing up to five wooden totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center carved by local tribal artists is being proposed by the U.S. Forest Service, in connection with a co-stewardship ...

A Ray man accused of using a 17-foot totem pole to kill his wife pleaded guilty to unintentional murder Wednesday in Koochiching County District Court. More than two years after Linda ...

Totem Poles are carved wooden pillars made by the First Nations of the Northwest Coast. Totem poles are important symbols for BC Northwest Coast peoples. Several kinds of totem poles were carved by ...

Installing a set of totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center highlighting local Alaska Natives may be a worthy idea, but numerous tribal residents expressed concerns during an initial ...

The wood for the totem poles was cut from the Nakagawa Experimental ... Kaze sculptures in 1986 at his Otoineppu atelier, where he carved other famous works, including “Kami no Shita” (Tongue ...