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 ...

Native communites say cultural symbols are not tourist attractions created for public amusement ...

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 ...

On an early spring afternoon, a totem pole with newly attached wings stood tall greeting every person who enters the Cedar Creek Corrections Center. As the sun peeked through the overcast skies, ...

During the 1930s the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed some of Juneau’s most enduring places. A special aspect of the program in Southeast Alaska restored, preserved and carved new Alaska Native ...