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 ...

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

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.

"Totem poles” refer to monumental carvings made from tree trunks by Indigenous peoples from the northern Northwest Coast, in what is now Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. These impressive ...

president of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, wrote in a post on his Facebook page Tuesday. “For generations, totem poles have served as powerful ...

Seven tribal organizations across the state of Alaska, from Mary’s Igloo to Metlakatla, received over $12 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in December. The grants, ...