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Canadian Museums Association Guidance on International Repatriation

The CMA's recently-issued paper Repatriation of Cultural Heritage to Indigenous Nations in Canada: International Guidance for Museums ...

To Honour and Respect: Gifts from the Michi Saagiig Women to the Prince of Wales, 1860

For the past few years, I have co-curated the To Honour and Respect project with Lori Beavis (Hiawatha). This is a reconnection project,...

Remote video visiting techniques for museums: a how-to guide

Image showing multiple camera views used in remote visiting; Zoom session with OBS software. Laura Peers and Anne-Marie Guérin, 2021. In...

Crossing cultures: Indigenous decorated coats

My forthcoming book, Object Lives: Global Histories in Northern North America (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020) is co-edited with...

Repatriation and relatives: Demasduit and Nonosabasut’s long journey home

The remains of a Beothuk couple, Demasduit and Nonosabasut, have been returned from the National Museums Scotland to the Canadian Museum...

Indigenous heritage items in overseas collections

Much of the earliest historic material culture from North American Indigenous nations is held by overseas museums.

International Indigenous Repatriation: what happens at the border?

National consultation required regarding paperwork for shipping, security, and customs procedures when bringing ancestral remains and...

Ministerial mandate to repatriate: but first, we need to identify items in museum collections

Research to identify items by Indigenous community of origin often needs to happen before repatriation can occur. 10 January 2020 Steven...