Exploring Theme: "Repatriating Indigenous "Artefacts""

NationTalk: Coastal First Nations Great Bear Initiative A pts’aan, a totem pole belonging to the Gitxaała Nation — sold 126 years ago during one of their “darkest periods in living memory” — has returned home, blessed and reawakened, in the presence of their ancestors. “It was significant for our people. It felt like it was...

Medicine mask, turtle rattle were in museum’s possession for almost 200 years CBC News: After almost 200 years sitting in Switzerland museums, two sacred objects belonging to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy have returned home from overseas. A delegation from the Haudenosaunee External Relations Committee travelled to Geneva, Switzerland, last week to retrieve a medicine mask and...

A heritage advisor said there has been a positive shift in how museums handle these collections CBC News CBC News: Canadian Indigenous artifacts are well travelled. They can be found on display in museums and galleries all over the world, or tucked away in filing cabinets and on dusty shelves in back rooms. It’s Nyla...