Alison Marks marked the spot. Marks, an artist, recently became perhaps the first Tlingit woman to carve and raise a totem pole. The finished piece was raised at noon Oct. 27 in Yakutat by the ...

Thirty totem poles are planned for the Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Kootéeyaa Deiyí trail being installed along the Juneau ...

WASHINGTON — Tlingit leaders dedicated a storied totem pole in Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s office on Tuesday. The 10-foot tall, 900-pound totem pole, which is on loan from the Sealaska ...

With transformative support from the Mellon Foundation, the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska is ...

Visiting Fort William Henry Seward in Haines, Alaska is a part of spending any time in this wonderful small town. Formerly ...

Five new totem poles proposed at Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center as part of stewardship agreement Open house Wednesday to discuss project intended to “represent several Tlingit and Haida clans.” ...

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 in Southeast Alaska.

David Russell-Jensen of Sealaska Heritage Institute hopes to share Tlingit culture, language and Totem Pole Trail in Alaska.

Right, in Klawock, Jon Rowan Jr. (Tlingit name: Tooyeek) discusses totem pole carving with the Alaskan Youth Stewards crew and learns about their experiences in the forest.

From card: "In 1990 this totem pole is on exhibit in Natural History Museum exhibit Hall 9/11 with the following label: "totem pole, probably Tlingit, Southeast Alaska. This tall cedar pole with a ...

Harriman collected the totem pole and house from an abandoned Tlingit village at Cape Fox, Alaska during the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899. He then shipped the pieces to Seattle and donated them ...

A totem pole designed in 1940 by George Benson stands in front of the Pioneer Home in downtown Sitka's totem square in Sitka, Alaska. Some say the pole is a "shame pole" and the figure at the top ...