JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Nicholas Galanin can’t wait to see the totem pole from far away. Galanin, the lead carver on a 40-foot Yanyeidi Wolf totem pole that will go up in Savikko Park on Douglas Island ...

The soaring native art form of the totem pole by North America’s first peoples may be found throughout the northwestern United States and Alaska, which will celebrate 50 years of statehood in 2009.

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Totem poles, those giant red cedar poles elaborately carved with images of animals and people, can be thought of as three-dimensional family histories; histories that began in the time before people ...

KALAMA, Wash. (KOIN) — At the Port of Kalama on the Columbia River, 4 totem poles tower above the Cowlitz County landscape, including one that may be the tallest of its kind in North America. That ...

BRISTOL, Va. - At some point, whittling a piece of wood becomes carving. It might be a small animal or a character, but a local artist wanted to carve something bigger -- so big, in fact, that it's 30 ...

SEQUIM — A tall team of healers, plus a relatively short greeter, stand ready now at the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe’s new health clinic. It took about three hours — under a mercifully rainless sky — ...

Even before “Blackfish” came out, it had already become a lightning rod. The new documentary calls out SeaWorld for keeping killer whales penned up and forcing them to perform for our entertainment; ...

FAYETTEVILLE - "Dance lessons" on stage at Totem Pole Playhouse helped pull in hundreds of dollars to save the lives of local animals in need of homes. When “Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks” opened at ...

LA CONNER — After being gone for three months, the bear, salmon and eagle that have stood watch outside La Conner Elementary School for more than two decades have returned. The totem pole on which the ...