Totem Poles scatter the lands of the Pacific Northwest; some are modern creations and other totem poles are decayed by time and weather. For decades after colonization, the creation of these ...

WASHINGTON — Tlingit ... tribe and given the name Aan shaawátk’i, meaning “Lady of the Land,” in 2011. The pole sits in the corner of Murkowski’s office across from another totem ...

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 ... a wolf, a killer whale ...

On Saturday morning a ceremony will be held at Heritage Plaza to dedicate the clans and tribes ... Tlingit carver from Sitka agreed, and said he couldn’t recall a time when this many totem poles ...

According to Tlingit mythology ... chief of the Gaanaxadi clan in the Tongass tribe from 1902 to his death in 1938. More than 80 standing totem poles are scattered around Ketchikan in southeastern ...

Brenda Brainard, a member of the Confederated Tribes ... a Tlingit artist from Alaska, to do authentic Native artwork for them. In this Nov. 17, 2018 photo a freshly-painted totem pole at the ...

In Lingít xʼéináx, the Tlingit ... “crest pole” rather than “totem pole” to refer to monumental carvings from the Northwest Coast. Skidegate Indian Village of the Haida tribe, ca.