The Lummi nation’s “House of Tears” carvers set out Tuesday from Bellingham, Wash., to drive a totem pole to the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C. Along the “Red Road to DC,” the totem pole and ...

Two expert carvers, Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Hereditary Chief David Knox and his cousin, Mervyn Child, travelled to Victoria to repair a century-old totem pole at the Royal B.C. Museum.

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 north ...

(CNN) — For the House of Tears Carvers, totem poles are more than masterful works of art — they’re a medium for storytelling, for raising consciousness, for healing. The group of artisans from the ...

This salmon is carved from cedar. But it still travels. The totem pole, the work of Native carvers, is part of the Spirit of the Waters journey to the Snake River in Idaho, making stops in communities ...

Nathan Jackson and his son Stephen Jackson, who uses the artist name Jackson Polys, stand in the carving shed in Saxman earlier this month. (Photo by Eric Stone/KRBD) The Sealaska Heritage Institute ...

Lummi Nation carvers and supporters are bringing a totem pole across the country before gifting it to President Biden’s administration this summer. The House of Tears Carvers at the Lummi Nation will ...

RAY, Minn. -- Carl Muggli is determined to finish the totem pole that killed his wife before he leaves the Northland. Carl and Linda Muggli, married 24 years, carved totem poles most of that time and ...