Totem poles are monuments created by First Nations of the Pacific Northwest to represent and commemorate ancestry, histories, people, or events. Most totem poles display beings, or crest animals, marking a family's lineage and validating the powerful rights and privileges that the family held.

Join British Columbia resident, Luke Parnell, as he crafts a Haida Totem Pole and shares the meaning behind this indigenous artwork.

Global Partnerships

Partnerships for the goals

Infrastructure industrialization

Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Peace justice

Peace, Justice and strong institutions

Connections and exchanges exist between and among the peoples of Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. These connections and exchanges include social/cultural, migration/immigration, and scientific/technological.

SOC.5.1.4

Culture and experiences influence people’s perceptions of places and regions in the United States, Canada, and Latin America today.

SOC.5.2.6

The characteristics, distribution, and complexity of cultures found in the United States, Canada, and Latin America

SOC.5.2.7

Students will select one Native American culture group from the United States, one from Canada, and one from the Caribbean region and compare and contrast them by examining how each of these groups adapted to and used the environment and its resources to meet their basic needs, and by examining elements of their culture, including customs, beliefs, values, languages, and patterns of organization and governance.

SOC.5.1c.2

Students will explore key cultural characteristics, such as the languages, religions and contributions, of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and one Caribbean or one South American country.

SOC.5.5a.1

Students will compare and contrast key cultural characteristics and contributions associated with the United States with those associated with Canada, Mexico, and a country in either the Caribbean or South America.

SOC.5.5a.2

Students will compare and contrast the government structures and functions of the United States government with those of Canada, Mexico, and one other country in either the Caribbean or South America.

SOC.5.6a.3

Students will explore the characteristics of a traditional economy used by the Inuit, the market economy of the United States or Canada, and the command economy of Cuba, noting similarities and differences.

SOC.5.7a.1

Students will identify the major natural resources of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and one Caribbean or one South American country to determine the major industries of those countries in relation to available resources.

SOC.5.7b.1

locate places, including the local community, Texas, the United States, the state capital, the U.S. capital, and the bordering countries of Canada and Mexico on maps and globes.

SOC.2.4.B

identify the location of major world countries such as Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Russia, South Africa, Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Iran, India, Pakistan, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), Japan, North and South Korea, Indonesia, and Australia.