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, ...
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 ...
“The totem pole,” Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass write at the start of their new book, “is not all things to all people.” That may be an understatement. In “The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History,” ...