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.

KALAMA, Wash. (KOIN) — At the Port of Kalama on the Columbia River, 4 totem poles tower above the Cowlitz County landscape, including one that may be the tallest of its kind in North America. That ...

BRISTOL, Va. — Behind Carl B. Jessee’s Art and Frame Shop on Commonwealth Avenue, a stoic creation is slowly being brought to life, chisel by chisel. Jessee and four other artists are carving an ...

LEBANON — More than a dozen members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Greater Santiam went back to the classroom a little early Tuesday morning as City Manager Gary Marks gave them a lesson in the ...

SEQUIM — A tall team of healers, plus a relatively short greeter, stand ready now at the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe’s new health clinic. It took about three hours — under a mercifully rainless sky — ...

FAYETTEVILLE - "Dance lessons" on stage at Totem Pole Playhouse helped pull in hundreds of dollars to save the lives of local animals in need of homes. When “Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks” opened at ...

Even before “Blackfish” came out, it had already become a lightning rod. The new documentary calls out SeaWorld for keeping killer whales penned up and forcing them to perform for our entertainment; ...

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 ...