Pruning the Parks: Moving the Totems Changed Everything for Old Kasaan National Monument (1916-1955) –
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Old Kasaan National Monument was established on October 25, 1916 to preserve an abandoned Haida Indian village site in the Alaska panhandle. The Park Service moved historic totems to a different site, and Congress abolished the park in 1955.