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One famous shame pole is the Seward Pole at the Saxman Totem Park in Saxman, Alaska. Originally carved in the c. 1885 , the pole shamed former U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward for his "lack of recognition of Indigenous peoples at an early point in Alaska’s U.S. history," as well as not reciprocating the generosity of his Tlingit ...
Seward's Success, Alaska, a dome-enclosed community proposed in 1968; Seward Pole at the Saxman Totem Park; Other states. Seward Park in Seattle, Washington. Seward Square in Washington, D.C.. Seward, Illinois; Seward, Kansas; Seward County, Kansas; William H Seward Communication Arts Academy, an Elementary school in Chicago, Illinois
The Pioneer Square totem pole, also referred to as the Seattle totem pole and historically as the Chief-of-All-Women pole, is a Tlingit totem pole located in Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle, Washington. The original totem pole was carved in 1790 and raised in the Tlingit village on Tongass Island, Alaska to honor the Tlingit woman Chief-of ...
William Henry Seward, also known as Let Us Make the Treaty Tonight, the Monument to William H. Seward, and William H. Seward, [1] is an outdoor bronze sculpture of William H. Seward by Richard Brooks, located in Volunteer Park in Seattle, Washington, United States.
In the 1930s, crews from the Civilian Conservation Corps relocated and/or replicated additional totem poles at the house site, restored the house, constructed a small park, and cut a trail from the center of new Kasaan to the park and adjacent cemeteries. [2] The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [1]
I wasn't low man on the totem pole, I was under the totem pole, in a sewer, tied to a sack. [5] Curtis's uncredited screen debut came in the crime drama Criss Cross (1949) playing a rumba dancer, dancing with Yvonne de Carlo. The male star was Burt Lancaster who would make a number of films with Curtis.
In 1977, the Pioneer Building was listed as a National Historic Landmark alongside two other elements of the city's post-fire rebuilding: a pergola that was built as a cable car waiting area in 1909 (Pioneer Square pergola), and the 1940 replica of a stolen Tlingit totem pole gifted to the city in 1899 (Pioneer Square totem pole). [6] [14]
The park has been the subject of a major restoration effort in the 2010s. The old totem poles, that were removed from the park, remain in outdoor storage near the old cannery in the downtown area of the village. The totem park is located on top of a hill, next to the church and the public school. The park has a panoramic view of the water.