In 1951, the Indian Act was revised and the ban on potlatching was dropped, rendering the celebration and raising of totem poles legal once again. Totem poles were again carved and erected in the ...

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Installing a set of totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier Center ... representing the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, which has a co-stewardship agreement with ...

Totem Poles are carved wooden pillars made by the First Nations of the Northwest Coast. Totem poles are important symbols for BC Northwest Coast peoples. Several kinds of totem poles were carved by ...