Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Repatriation to Indigenous groups is more than law, it’s human rights − an archaeologist describes the day that lesson hit home

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par Christopher Wolff, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University at Albany, State University of New York

As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and returning to a lab in a university or museum to study the remains of past civilizations, with hopes of answering important questions.

In contrast, I’ve often found myself working to return those remains to their rightful cultures. Repatriation is the process of returning ancestral human remains and important objects to descendant populations. Since the passing of the National Museum of the American…

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