This June 14, 2019, photo shows the top of the totem at the Governor's House in Juneau, Alaska, an example of totems carved by people employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Rural Tennessee has electricity for the same reason Southeast Alaska has totem parks - the New Deal. In order to help the nation recover from the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created a number of federal agencies to put people to work. From 1938-1942 more than 200 Tlingit and Haida men carved totem poles and cleared land for the CCC in an effort to create "totem parks" the federal government hoped would draw travelers to Alaska. (Michael Penn/Juneau Empire via AP)
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