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 ...

In 1951, the Indian Act was revised and the ban on potlatching was dropped, rendering the celebration and raising of totem poles legal once again. Totem poles were again carved and erected in the ...

For the Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Nisga'a, Gitksan, Kwakiutl and other people living along the wooded shores and rivers of the Pacific Northwest, totem poles embody their tribal, clan ...

Over the last decade, several hundred Native American students and their families helped design, carve, and paint a series of ...

Eugene School District 4J announced April 23 it would be removing its totem poles across the district after Native community ...

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Here are some of the more common Native American totems and meanings and the positive characteristics attributed to them: Native American cultures in the Pacific Northwest carved totem poles that ...

The store remains perhaps the premier outlet for authentic Native-carved totem poles in the Pacific Northwest, with the descendants of original carver Sam Williams, who provided totem poles for J ...

which were common with many Pacific Northwest tribes. In this Feb. 23, 2021 photo, two staff members of Madison Middle School stand outside an entrance with a newly-installed totem pole made by ...