On Monday, August 29th members of the Wrangell Cooperative Association, master carvers, and Tlingit elders gathered at Chief Shakes Island to bless the totem poles before restoration work begins. KSTK ...
Wrangell’s famed Three-Frog Totem on Shakes Island is no more. The clans involved in the pole’s history decided its purpose had long since passed. It was taken down in a ceremony on Sept. 6 in the ...
Joe Martin removes sheets covering the new totem pole after it was raised in Opitsaht, on Meares Island. MELISSA RENWIWCK, HA-SHILTH-SA OPITSAHT — As Eddie Frank travelled to Opitsaht from Tofino in a ...