The smell of cedar and the sounds of singing filled the garden behind the Alaska Native Heritage Center during the raising of a totem pole that symbolizes healing from the boarding school era. More ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Totem poles are unique to the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. The ones around Ketchikan are particularly old and ...

This is a developing story. Three totem poles have been removed from the Michael J. Burns Building that houses the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. headquarters, including a 30-foot-tall totem outside the ...

EVERETT — A piece of Everett some 650 years in the making will soon make its way to Alaska. In January, local Tlingit artist Fred Fulmer began carving an 11-foot, 400-pound totem pole at his north ...

EVERETT, Wash. — Fred Fulmer Sr. has been chipping away at his passion project for over a year. That’s not uncommon in his line of work. Fulmer said it’s well worth his time to preserve history and ...

A 14-foot totem pole carved by Chilkoot artists is headed from the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta, Ga. to Haines. (Courtesy Delta Flight Museum) A totem pole carved over half a century ago by Chilkoot ...

Introduction to Alaska's totems: Totem people -- Importance of cedar -- Carving a totem pole -- Early totem sightings -- Golden age of totem poles -- Devastating changes -- Symbol of the Pacific ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - All week there’s been an exchange of cultures between Native Hawaiians and Alaska Natives as the Hokulea crew prepares for Thursday’s departure ceremony from Juneau, Alaska ...

KETCHIKAN, AK – An arched sign stretching between two city blocks welcomes travelers to “Alaska’s first city” and the “salmon capital of the world.” But Ketchikan, the first port on many Alaska ...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska – An arched sign stretching between two city blocks welcomes travelers to “Alaska’s first city” and the “salmon capital of the world.” But Ketchikan, the first port on many Alaska ...