The summer of 2025 has been one of the San Juan Island’s Museum of Art’s busiest summers since pre-COVID, according to Director Blake DeYoung, and the response to the current exhibit “Shapeshifters,” ...

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Negotiations for transferring the pole began in 2023. Sim'oogit Laay' (the late Hubert Haldane) met with Rowley and said the ...

Haida Gwaii is an idyllic archipelago with lush rainforests, rugged terrain and wave-caressed beaches. It’s a paradise. Late last week, Masset — a village nestled on the shore of a northern coast ...

In April 2024, the B.C. government agreed to recognize and affirm the Haida Nation’s Aboriginal title to the archipelago on Canada’s west coast. In December, Ottawa did likewise. These agreements ...

A First Nations artist who spent months carving a totem pole to tell a story about Canada's residential school system said he's determined to fix the structure, after it was damaged during a storm in ...

Fifty years of wear on four totem poles in downtown Victoria has been taken away by repairs and fresh paint. The totems, which have graced Nootka Court since the 1970s, were carved by Tony Hunt Sr.

We tend to view private property as a sacrosanct, never-changing principle. But property rights are legal constructs — never ...

Come join us as we continue our Vancouver Island road trip adventures by taking a day trip to Alert Bay, BC to visit the world's biggest totem pole on Cormorant Island. In today’s video, we continue ...

With transformative support from the Mellon Foundation, the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Tlingit & Haida) is advancing a bold vision of Tribal co-stewardship at the ...