"Totem" is a native word from the eastern woodlands region of North America that was taken into English and incorrectlyapplied by white people to the "totem poles" made by natives on the Pacific north-west coast.
In the Natick language of Massachusetts, the word wuhtotae or wuhtotu means a native group, a clan or local inhabitants of a place. The related Ojibwe word odoodeman means "his group, his siblings, his kin" and was also applied to specific markings or signs referring to a particular family or clan.
Europeans adopted this word as "totem" by the mid-18th century and applied it to any native sign for a family or clan.
In the early 19th century, American and Canadian settlers began to use this word for the carved poles they saw among the Haida, Tlingit, Kwakiutl, Tsimshian and other native people of Alaska, British Columbia, Vancouver Island and the coast of Washington state.
Naturally the native people of these areas did not use the English word totem; the Haida phrase meaning "It is a totem pole" looks like this: Gyáa'aang uu íijang. In Kwakiutl, the word for totem pole is kalakuyuwish (pole that holds up the sky).
a totem pole depicts what tribe the native americans are in.
How do you draw an alligator and a totem pole
I'll race you to the totem pole! This totem pole honors some of my family's bravest ancestors.
What would a racoon on a totem pole
They belived the faces on the totem pole were the gods
A totem pole is carved for an individual or for a family. Each animal or person carved on the pole is there to remind the pole's owner about a story or an event. A totem pole is kind of a status symbol.
Get a pole and put some totem in it......................actually really easy..........get the totem from Kroger..................just ask the manager
Live Totem Pole was created on 1991-08-16.
can a wolf and a watchmen go together on a totem pole
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Depends on what your asking. When was the first totem pole made? Long ago. Who made the first totem pole? Depends on how you define a totem pole. Wood or Stone? Detailed or not? Who made totem poles? There has been totem poles from Africa Tribes, American Indians, Vikings, and undoubtedly more.
A totem pole represents the animals of the tribe unless I am mistaken.
the first totem pole was made of the tall, strong trunks of cedar trees