The Seattle Totems were a professional ice hockey franchise in the Pacific Coast Hockey League (later Western Hockey League or WHL) from 1944-1974 and in the Central Hockey League for the 1974-1975 season. The Totems won three WHL Lester Patrick Cup championships: 1959, 1967, and 1968.

The appropriation of Indigenous names for professional sports teams has been popular since the 19th century, and the design of the Seattle Totems logo was based on the art from the tribes of Canada and Alaska. Visitors to Seattle started to incorrectly associate the northern totem poles with the city in the early twentieth century as a result of a displayed totem pole in Pioneer Square, which was stolen from a Tlingit village in Alaska by Seattle business leaders in 1899. Native artists from this region, notably Chief William Shelton (Tulalip) and Joseph Hillaire (Lummi), began carving Coast Salish style totem poles in the 1920s and 1930s to connect a demand for totem poles to the traditions of Indigenous peoples of the area.

The official program pictured here is from the 1967-1968 season, from a game played against the San Diego Gulls at the Seattle Center Coliseum (now KeyArena). The Totems roster includes coach Bill MacFarland; trainer Pat Dunn; forwards Guyle Fielder, Marc Boileau, Ian Campbell, Don Chiz, Bill Dineen, Earl Heiskala, Chuck Holmes, Tom Iannone, Gerry Leonard, Larry Lund, and Cleland Mortson; defensemen Dwight Carruthers, Paul Cates, Don Fedun, Larry Hale, and Don Ward; and goalkeepers Jim Armstron and Don Head.

Caption information source: http://www.seattletotems.org/a_brief_history.html.
Caption information source: "Historical Coast Salish art." The Burke Museum. https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/culture/contemporary-culture/coast-salish-art/historical-coast-salish-art