Telling Alaska’s Story: Native nonprofit secures $2.9 million grant to build Juneau totem pole trail

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Telling Alaska’s Story: Native nonprofit secures $2.9 million grant to build Juneau totem pole trail
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The Sealaska Heritage Institute has been awarded a $2.9 million grant to start building a totem pole trail along Juneau’s waterfront. The plan is to carve the poles by the end of 2022 and raise them in 2023.

was awarded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation earlier in the month. The plan is to carve the poles by the end of 2022 and raise them in 2023.

“We want to make sure that our master artists are transferring those skills to the next generation,” she added. “It’s been our dream to make Juneau the Northwest Coast arts capital,” Worl said. “So we’ve had a number of projects contributing to that vision.”is to eventually carve and raise 30 totem poles along the trail, but the first 10 are being prioritized for artists from Juneau clans. Worl says Tsimshian and Haida artists will also be represented.

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