Exploring Theme: "Repatriating Indigenous "Artefacts""

The Globe and Mail: In the northeastern B.C. forests surrounding Charlie Lake, a gully rests between a small cave and a boulder. While the gully is only three metres wide, it happens to hold over 12,000 years of Indigenous history. That discovery goes back 50 years, when archeologists were told of a sacred cave called Tse’k’wa by...

Totem’s return comes amid reckoning for museums VICTORIA – A homecoming celebration for a memorial totem pole after an absence of almost 100 years will resonate far beyond the tiny Indigenous village in northwest British Columbia where it is being returned Friday.  Toronto Star: The Canadian Press, VICTORIA – A homecoming celebration for a memorial...

Canoe was in the possession of a Montreal family since the 1920s CBC Indigenous: A birchbark canoe well over 100 years old has a new home in Kanien’kehá:ka territory after spending decades in storage in Quebec and Minnesota. The 110-year-old canoe was donated to the permanent collection of the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center in Kahnawà:ke,...

Barenaked Ladies bassist Jim Creeggan learns about grandfather’s time in the community NationTalk: Burn Creeggan says he didn’t really know why he wanted to return his father’s beaded white pine cross to Tyendinaga, the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) community that had presented him with the cross in the 1920s. Burn’s son Jim Creeggan, who is the bassist for Barenaked Ladies, said it became...

Bag is now housed at the Poundmaker Museum and Gallery  CBC Indigenous: A pipe bag that belonged to a Plains Cree chief known as a peacekeeper has been returned to his home community in Saskatchewan, more than a century after he gave it to a chaplain at a Manitoba prison. Chief Poundmaker, whose Cree name is Pitikwahanapiwiyin, gave...

“We haven’t had any problems with when we find (artifacts). Everything comes to a stop. Then we do our work to it. And the archaeologist does his work. And then they start up again. They’re really good about that,” — Alfred L’Hirondelle, president of Region 4 of the Métis Nation of Alberta At left: Jed...

Port Colborne was set to dig in area where, according to technical memo, remains of 9 people had been found CBC News: Work to investigate a burial ground that unearthed human remains and Indigenous artifacts in the Niagara Region has been paused after a group says they haven’t received enough engagement about the matter. The City of...