The U.S. Forest Service plans to raise five new totem poles – called kootéeyaa in ... Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska and the Forest Service unveiled the plan.

Five towering totem poles will soon be placed at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center, representing Tlingit & Haida clans.

Totem poles have become some of the most iconic symbols of “Native American culture,” but ... in the 1940s for Totem Bight Park, Ketchikan, Alaska.

Installing a set of totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center highlighting local Alaska Natives may be a worthy idea, but numerous tribal residents expressed concerns during an initial ...

Tlingit twin carvers Mick and Rick Beasley created the totem poles. M. Beasley said they were carved at Fred Meyer’s request because the Juneau storefront was the most productive nationally. The brown ...

They were famed for their totem poles and their potlatches ... Historian Ken Coates described the effect of the Alaska Highway on the area's native population: "Construction projects transformed ...