US EditionIndigenous artifacts from the Vatican collection returning to Canada today
The 62 Indigenous artifacts, including a rare Inuvialuit kayak, arrived after three years of negotiations to support reconciliation and cultural restoration, officials said.
- On Saturday, the Vatican returned more than 60 centuries-old Indigenous artifacts to First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities, unloading them at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal.
- Indigenous leaders' three-year campaign secured a Vatican pledge last month, with Pope Leo formalizing a gift initiated by Pope Francis after long-awaited talks in Rome.
- Museum records note many objects were first taken to Rome for a Vatican Mission Exposition, and there is no public inventory of repatriated goods, including a rare Inuvialuit sealskin kayak from the western Arctic.
- The Canadian Museum of History will examine the artifacts in Gatineau, Quebec before Indigenous leaders, including First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, decide new homes for them.
- The move follows a global wave of museums returning items taken unethically and links to efforts addressing residential schools and historical abuses, including Pope Francis's penitential pilgrimage to Canada.
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Inuit artifacts returned by Vatican to be displayed in Canadian Museum of History
A collection of Inuit artifacts returned by the Vatican will be displayed at the Canadian Museum of History on December 9, according to reporting from AP.
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Independent EspañolOTTAWA (AP) — A selection of Inuit artifacts returned by the Vatican will be displayed at the Canadian Museum of History on Tuesday, after leaders of the First Nations, Inuit and Métis for years requested the repatriation of indigenous objects. Pope Leo XIV delivered the artifacts, including a traditional Inuit kayak, and supporting documentation for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, which stated that he would return the objects to in…
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The Independent (US)The Vatican is returning rare Indigenous artifacts after a century
This collection has long been controversial, central to wider debates over the restitution of cultural goods
The return process was initiated by Francisco in his "penentional pilgrimage" to Canada in 2022. Pope Leo speaks of "take", which critics say to be "highly controversial" vision of history.
Indigenous leaders were waiting on the snowy track of Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport on Saturday while the valuable cargo was unloaded from an Air Canada plane.
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