Here’s what else visitors should know about Ketchikan, the “totem pole capital of the world.” ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Nicholas Galanin can’t wait to see the totem pole from far away. Galanin, the lead carver on a 40-foot Yanyeidi Wolf totem pole that will go up in Savikko Park on Douglas Island ...

The soaring native art form of the totem pole by North America’s first peoples may be found throughout the northwestern United States and Alaska, which will celebrate 50 years of statehood in 2009.

For their November family project, first-graders at Antwerp Elementary School created animal totem poles. Pictured with their works of art are, from left: Case Trabel, Bryceton Barker, Tucker Doster, ...

A 26-foot totem pole that had resided for more than a century at Chicago’s Field Museum is standing tall again among descendants of the people who carved it, long ago, from a cedar tree (this sentence ...