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First Nations consultant scolds MPPs at hearing about controversial Sir John A. Macdonald statue
Four years after a statue of Canada’s first prime minister was boarded up to protect it from vandals, a committee of MPPs gathering input on…
August 19, 2024
Repatriating Indigenous "Artefacts"
U of L digitizing Blackfoot items that were put into museums
BY ALEXANDRA NOAD - LETHBRIDGE HERALD LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER ON AUGUST 7, 2024. mootookakiossin.ca photo - Visiting items in the work room at the…
August 12, 2024
Repatriating Indigenous "Artefacts"
Bringing Inuit art back to Nunavut more urgent than ever, says advocate
William Beveridge has been working with the federal government and Nunavut to build a heritage centre The Inuit art piece Hunter with Harpoon (1953) by…
August 7, 2024
Repatriating Indigenous "Artefacts"
One of the world’s oldest sacred shrines could return to remote Indigenous settlement in B.C.
The Whalers' Shrine, one of the world's oldest sacred shrines, could be returned to B.C. soon. Photo courtesy American Museum of Natural History. Windspeaker.com: Members…...
July 31, 2024
Repatriating Indigenous "Artefacts"
First Nation in Alberta seeks more control over historical resources on lands
Members of the Chipewyan Prairie First Nation conduct an archeological dig on their reserve lands in Janvier, Alberta as shown in this handout image. The…...
June 17, 2024
Repatriating Indigenous "Artefacts"
Decades of archeological research gathered from B.C. cave repatriated to Indigenous group
Excavations in front of the cave entrance in 1983.HANDOUT The Globe and Mail: In the northeastern B.C. forests surrounding Charlie Lake, a gully rests between…...
April 5, 2024
Repatriating Indigenous "Artefacts"
The Pope supports restitution of Indigenous items to Canada. So why haven’t they come home?
Pope Francis has said he supports the restitution of the items held in the Vatican's museums – and yet, so far, very little has happened…...
March 30, 2024
Repatriating Indigenous "Artefacts"
‘Box it up and we can repatriate it:’ First Nation in B.C. says it wants its totem pole returned
The totem pole at Scouts Canada headquarters in Ottawa was donated by the B.C. government in the 1960s. Photo: Kerry Slack/APTN. APTN News: A First…...
March 8, 2024
Repatriating Indigenous "Artefacts"
This man fell into a hole and uncovered ancient remains. It raised questions about how Toronto builds on Indigenous lands
A plaque at Withrow Avenue Junior Public School, across the street from this discovery, mentions that Indigenous remains and artifacts dating back an estimated 5,000…...
February 19, 2024
Museums and Reconciliation
Art Gallery of Ontario’s associate curator of Indigenous art, Taqralik Partridge, departs
The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, on July 22, 2017.ROBERTO MACHADO NOA/GETTY IMAGES The Globe and Mail: The Art Gallery of Ontario has lost…...
January 25, 2024