I'll race you to the totem pole! This totem pole honors some of my family's bravest ancestors.
The word totem has no meaning in Latin. The English word "totem" comes from an Algonquian (Native American) word meaning "his kin; his family mark".
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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.
No one "worshipped" totem poles, some groups of native americans used them to tell thier family history.
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The totems were family emblems celebrating famous ancestors and events.
Her mothers maiden name was Burke-Roche
The Northwest Indians made totem poles to represent a family's symbol. If there was a member from the family that had the wolf as their emblem and they married someone who came from a family that had the fox as their emblem then the couple would make a totem pole that had both the wolf and the fox on it plus a symbol to represent their future family.
These poles are more correctly known as "story poles" and were personal to the carver and their family. The creatures represented related to the life of the carver and his beliefs. ------ While totem poles do tell stories, they also represent a clan's crest, social rank, and affiliation. Totem poles were also carved to memorialize a deceased person. Animals carved on totem poles may represent the carver's crest, clan, or figures in a clan's story. It is not only animals or mythical creatures carved on totem poles, sometimes people and other objects are carved on them also. Depending on the story, it often does not personally belong to the carver, but rather to the clan he belongs to. If anything the totem poles were personal to the carver and his clan as opposed to just the carver and his family.