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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... FORT COLLINS — A Colorado State University art professor shares a special kinship with the American Indians she grew up with in Alaska and is helping ...

The smell of cedar and the sounds of singing filled the garden behind the Alaska Native Heritage Center during the raising of a totem pole that symbolizes healing from the boarding school era. More ...

The T’aaku Kwáan of Douglas Island raised a totem pole in front of an elementary school Saturday to mark the site of a disturbed graveyard. The pole symbolizes the pain of historical trauma and a need ...

Over the last decade, several hundred Native American students and their families helped design, carve, and paint a series of totem poles for the Eugene 4J School District’s NATIVES program. Five were ...

In Native American language a Totem is a symbol that can represent a tribe, family or an individual. Traditionally, each individual is assigned nine different animals through their life, with each ...

The taking of the Native totem poles and other objects from Cape Fox village is one of the most frequently retold episodes of the Harriman Expedition. Earlier in the trip, on Kodiak Island, the artist ...

A 5,000-pound totem pole that was hand-carved by Native Americans is coming from Washington state to be on display in the nation’s capital this summer after a journey that organizers hope will raise ...