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 ...

One side pulls while the other side is told to hold tension in the line. Men grunt and struggle as they push against the large pole while men and women pull on the lines, all working together to ...

According to Tlingit mythology, long ago a Raven wished to marry Fog Woman, the daughter of Chief Fog-Over-the-Salmon. The chief granted his permission, and Fog Woman and Raven lived happily for two ...

It was a magic moment as totem poles were raised to once more look over a Northumberland village. For almost 50 years totem poles have been a feature of the skyline at Stonehaugh, which was built in ...

Master Kwakiutl carver Henry Eugene Hunt was commissioned by Walter and Leonore Annenberg to create a 30-foot tall cedar wood totem pole for the grounds at Sunnylands in 1972. But Hunt's family had ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Since 1929, a totem pole has stood sentry along the lakefront on the east side of DuSable Lake Shore Drive at Addison Street – though it has not been the same one all along. Its story ...

Ketchikan, Alaska is known as the "totem pole capital of the world" with over 80 poles. Totem poles are unique to the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest and represent family history, stories, ...