Here's the story behind (and the hopeful future for) two totem poles that stood in Victor Steinbrueck Park for nearly 40 years before being taken to storage.

Totem Poles scatter the lands of the Pacific Northwest; some are modern creations and other totem poles are decayed by time and weather. For decades after colonization, the creation of these ...

Pacific NW Magazine; Tacoma’s totem-pole takedown aims to ... into pieces a 118-year-old city landmark — the Tacoma totem pole. ... City of Destiny in favorable comparison to northern neighbor ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A Native American tribe is taking a 22-foot totem pole from Canada through the Pacific Northwest to Montana in opposition of proposed coal export terminals. A team from the ...

TACOMA — A 110-year-old carved cedar pole known as the Tacoma Totem Pole is rotting and in danger of falling, so officials are trying to decide how to save it.

Totem poles were created by the indigenous people of North America’s Pacific Northwest as a way to document their history, with each massive carving recalling notable events and commemorating ...

Local Native Americans are transporting a 5,000-pound totem pole to D.C. from the Pacific Northwest. The pole was made from a 400-year-old Western red cedar tree that was cut, carved and painted ...

"Totem poles” refer to monumental carvings made from tree trunks by Indigenous peoples from the northern Northwest Coast, in what is now Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. These impressive ...

Retirees Max and Nona Meinen got an unpleasant surprise three years ago when they returned to their ranch southwest of Fort Worth after a winter vacation.A gas company laying a pipeline had ...