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 ...

Here’s what else visitors should know about Ketchikan, the “totem pole capital of the world.” ...

“The totem pole,” Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass write at the start of their new book, “is not all things to all people.” That may be an understatement. In “The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History,” ...

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 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.

From a distance, "Totem," the Mark Vance sculpture on extended display at the Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery at the West 78th Street Studios on the edge of Cleveland's Gordon Square Arts District, ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) -- A 10-foot-tall wolf carving, a totem pole marking a grave and other sacred items have been stolen from the Lummi Reservation. The Bellingham Herald reported Thursday that at ...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Retirees Max and Nona Meinen got an unpleasant surprise three years ago when they returned to their ranch southwest of Fort Worth, Texas, after a winter vacation. A gas company ...

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 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 ...

Native American totem poles up at several Eugene 4J schools will soon be removed after complaints of cultural appropriation by indigenous community members. The poles, which were constructed by ...

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 ...