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.

Native American totem poles up at several Eugene 4J schools will soon be removed after complaints of cultural appropriation by indigenous community members. The poles, which were constructed by ...

Native American cultures in the Pacific Northwest carved totem poles that represented the various totems protecting that tribe. Often at the top of the pole a thunderbird held a place of honor.

Eugene School District 4J is removing five totem poles around the district this summer. Native community members have been trying to get their voices heard by the district, school board since 2021.

and telling oral histories through totem poles, ceremonial clothing and blankets, hand-carved household items and other objects. In recent decades, native artisans have revived practices that ...

OTOINEPPU, Hokkaido--“Fukuro” (Owl), a 6-meter-high totem pole created by the renowned late contemporary Ainu sculptor Bikky Sunazawa, was toppled by winds here in late April and left to ...

And a short time later, Brown volunteered to repaint portions of the “Thunderbird” totem pole, which, after nearly 50 years at that intersection, was showing signs of age. “A light went on ...

Reporter Donald Trump has admitted that Stephen Miller is “top of the totem pole” as he considers appointing his next national security adviser. Miller, the current White House deputy chief of ...