Cultural Items Repatriated From Vatican Unveiled by First Nations Leaders

Cultural items repatriated from Vatican unveiled by First Nations leaders

Several items repatriated from the Vatican were unveiled by First Nations leaders at Gatineau’s Canadian Museum of History on Tuesday. CBC's Joe Tunney was there.

First Nations leaders unveil more items repatriated from the Vatican – Energeticcity.ca

OTTAWA — First Nations leaders on Tuesday unveiled five items repatriated to their communities after being held at the Vatican for more than a century. They also unboxed another two crates of items with origins that have yet to be determined. The returned items include a birch bark sap collector from Akwesasne, embroidered leather gloves from Athabasca Chipewyan, a wooden bowl and spoon from Manitoulin Island and a model cradle board, or tikinag…

AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak took part in the un-crating of First Nations cultural items from the Vatican

AFN unveils First Nations items returned from Vatican archives Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak took part Tuesday in the un-crating of First Nations cultural items recently returned from the Vatican Museums archive, calling the moment emotional and years in the making. The event marks a major step in repatriation work led