What Indian group created totem poles to honor their gods?

Question

was it the :

Iroquois

Nez Perce

Chinook

Pueblo

Answer 1

The Chinook, also the Tlinget, Haida, Tsimpsian, and many other tribes in the Pacific Northwest.

Answer 2

Chinook Totem Poles

Answer 3

The Chinook. Totem poles were common among the northwest tribes.

Answer 4

"Totem poles are monumental sculptures carved from great trees, typically Western Redcedar, by a number of Indigenous cultures along the Pacific northwest coast of North America. The word "totem" is derived from the Ojibwe word odoodem, "his totem, his kinship group"."

"Two other most notable cultures with such example of having a totem pole-like objects are those by the Māori and the Ainu."

" [Eddie Malin (1986)] argues that the center of pole construction was centered around the Haida people of the Queen Charlotte Islands, from whence it spread outward to the Tsimshian and Tlingit and then down the coast to the tribes of British Columbia and northern Washington."

"Totem poles were never objects of worship; the association with "idol worship" was an idea from local Christian missionaries. The same assumption was made by very early European explorers, but later explorers such as Jean-François de La Pérouse noted that totem poles were never treated reverently; they seemed only occasionally to generate allusions or illustrate stories and were usually left to rot in place when people abandoned a village."

"Totem pole" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totem_pole

Answer 5

Chinook

Answer 6

The totem poles were not to honor their gods, but their totems or animal ancestors/spirits. Most Northwest Indian tribes used them.