![]() | Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaska''s New Deal Totem Parks Among Southeast Alaska's best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks date back only to the waning years of the Great Depression, when the US government reversed its policy of suppressing Native practices and began to pay Tlingit and Haida communities to restore older totem poles and move them from ancestral villages into parks designed for tourists. Emily L. Moore is associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Colorado State University. |
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