Installing up to five wooden totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center carved by local tribal artists is being ...

Concerns raised about accurate representation of area’s Native peoples, project’s sudden announcement ...

While carving large poles, masks and other activities associated with potlatching declined during this difficult time, artists produced many smaller poles, keeping the artistic traditions alive. In ...

Flashback: The " Friendship Totem " was commissioned by the British Columbia provincial government in 1976 as a gift to ...

Last year it was agreed that the pole should be returned. The totem pole was carved from red cedar in 1855 and is made almost entirely from a single piece of wood, with a small cap on top which ...

Totem Poles are carved wooden pillars made by the First Nations of the Northwest Coast. Totem poles are important symbols for BC Northwest Coast peoples. Several kinds of totem poles were carved by ...

The totem pole was commissioned by Amy Parent's great ... It will be housed permanently in the Nisga'a Nation, where a place for it had been carved in the ground to symbolise a return to its ...