Galanin, who has already helped complete one of the totem poles on Kootéeyaa Deiyí, has been training for this work since he was young. “We always say a totem pole takes 15,000 years to make ...

On Friday morning, shoppers in Juneau noticed the absence of two totem poles that had been at Fred Meyer’s main entrance for approximately 40 years. Tlingit twin carvers Mick and Rick Beasley ...

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 ...

Johnson said there aren’t many Washington tribes who make totem poles. Some coastal tribes have welcome poles, which are typically smaller. However, Vancouver and Victoria, B.C., have totem ...

The totems were proclaimed by the Olympian Stone Company of Seattle to be the only cement, or concrete, totem poles in the world at the time.

Galanin, who has already helped complete one of the totem poles on Kootéeyaa Deiyí, has been training for this work since he was young. “We always say a totem pole takes 15,000 years to make ...