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 ...

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.

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, ...

PORT ANGELES — A 14-foot totem pole made by a Port Angeles artist was unveiled to applause from about 50 people in attendance Saturday at The Landing mall. The replica of Native American art made from ...

“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,” ...

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.

Members of the public take part in a blessing of the Lummi Nation totem pole in San Leandro, California, on June 3. The House of Tears Carvers toured the pole around the West Coast before embarking on ...

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 Red Road to D.C. started last week at the coastal Lummi nation north of Seattle and will finish on July 29 in Washington, D.C. The cross-country caravan will arrive Saturday at Bears Ears National ...

Located just outside Gettysburg, Totem Pole Playhouse may be deep in Civil War territory, but the theater is paying a charming tribute to another chapter of American history with “The Pursuit of ...

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 ...

Two dozen Native American activists in 10 cars towing one totem pole across the country. While this protest caravan may seem small, its message to Congress is outsized: Give Indigenous peoples a say ...