i've done a totem pole with master carver mick beasley, and i can show you, if you would like.ht. so, tell me a little bit about your clan. my clan is the l'uknax.adi clan. and the l'uknax.adi translates to "raven coho" — coho is a species of salmon, also known as silver salmon. 0ur stories go back for millennia. of all the united states, alaska is the second state to have officially recognised indigenous languages — and hawaii is the first. has modern alaskan history always been so open to native stories, the indigenous clans? no, it hasn't. it has been a struggle to fight for native rights. this is what we call the l'uknax.adi pole. it's the raven coho pole. it's beautiful. it's so intricate. tell me the story of it, what is it showing? so, at the bottom here, what we have is the female. and we know she's a female because she has what's called a lip plug. and she would represent the matriarch of the l'uknax.adi pole. the red figure just above her is the coho. so, since we are raven coho, that's what that is. the next figure up, the black figure, is a representation of raven,

i've done a totem pole with master carver mick beasley and i can show you, if you would like. right. so, tell me a little bit about your clan. my clan is the l'uknax.adi clan and the l'uknax.adi translates to "raven coho" — coho is a species of salmon, also known as silver salmon. 0ur stories go back for millennia. of all the united states, alaska is the second state to have officially recognised indigenous languages, and hawaii is the first. has modern alaskan history always been so open to native stories, the indigenous clans? no, it hasn't. it has been a struggle to fight for native rights. this is what we call the l'uknax.adi pole. it's the raven coho pole. it's beautiful. it's so intricate. tell me the story of it — what is it showing? so, at the bottom here, what we have is the female and we know she's a female because she has what's called a lip plug. and she would represent the matriarch of the l'uknax.adi pole. the red figure just above her is the coho. so, since we are raven coho, that's what that is. the next figure up, the black figure, is a representation of raven

i've done a totem pole with master carver mick beasley and i can show you, if you would like.ii is the first. has modern alaskan history always been so open to native stories, the indigenous clans? no, it hasn't. it has been a struggle to fight for native rights. this is what we call the l'uknax.adi pole. it's the raven coho pole. it's beautiful. it's so intricate. tell me the story of it, what is it showing? so, at the bottom here, what we have is the female and we know she's a female because she has what's called a lip plug. and she would represent the matriarch of the l'uknax.adi pole. the red figure just above her is the coho. so, since we are raven coho, that's what that is. the next figure up, the black figure, is a representation of raven, who has many stories of him — he's a trickster and a thief, and a liar and all other things. but on top is a white frog. back in 1905, the l'uknax.adi in dry bay were building a new house and while they were doing that, what they found was this dead, frozen frog. and they put it aside so that they could bury it later — you know, respe