Tlingits

Native Americans of the Tlingit Clan comprise a sizeable part of the populations of Sitka and Petersburg, two of our ports of call.

Totem Poles

The Tlinglits and other Native Americans of the Northwest Coast proudly preserved the history of their families by erecting totem poles in front of their houses.

At the Sitka National Heritage Park several examples were on display. Two young men were carving a new pole to replicate the totem that had stood before the house of one of their grandmothers.

The carefully carved reproductions we saw in Sitka and Petersburg carry on this tradition.

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