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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
First Nations
Six Nations artist and curator Tom Hill was ‘a champion for Indigenous artists’
Gained fame for Indigenous exhibits, worked at Woodland Cultural Centre Tom Hill was a celebrated curator at the Woodland Cultural Centre from 1982 to 2005. Woodland…...
January 8, 2024
First Nations
Leslie McCue on Breaking Stereotypes, Building Cultural Awareness, and Teaching
A Q&A with the Manager of Indigenous Learning and Programs at ROM BY COLIN J. FLEMING NationTalk: ROM - In lieu of a baby, Leslie McCue…...
December 8, 2023
Museums and Reconciliation
Are Canada’s museums honouring their promises to Indigenize and decolonize?
Aylan Couchie explains why she drafted a statement of concern, co-signed by Indigenous artists worldwide A detail of "A Raven Steals the Moon" by Inuvialuk…...
November 30, 2023
Repatriating Indigenous "Artefacts"
Reconciliation and reckoning as Nisga’a totem pole returns from Scotland museum
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…...
September 28, 2023
Repatriating Indigenous "Artefacts"
Family returns century-old birchbark canoe to Kahnawà:ke
Canoe was in the possession of a Montreal family since the 1920s This 110-year-old birchbark canoe has a new home at the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa…...
September 21, 2023