CHIEF EBBITS POLE. FATHER OF ANISALAGA

The Dogfish Kootéeyaa Pole in Saxman Totem ParkRural Tennessee has electricity for the same reason Southeast Alaska has Totem Parks—to help the nation recover from The Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, created several federal agencies to put people to work and work they did. From 1938-1942 more than 200 Tlingit and Haida First Nation carved totem poles and cleared land