Native American ancestral remains, artifacts returned to U.S. soil

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[nickcarraway]

Six hundred stolen Native American ancestral remains and artifacts, held at a museum overseas, have officially been returned to U.S. soil.

The U.S. has been trying for more than seven decades to secure the artifacts and remains from the National Museum of Finland to return to tribes of the Mesa Verde Region.

President Donald Trump was joined by U.S. Ambassador of Finland Robert Pence and Native American leaders for the announcement.

“How big is today? It’s huge,” said Pence.

In 1891, a young Finnish professor traveled to Mesa Verde in Colorado to study the cliff dwellings. A few years later, he returned to Finland taking the remains and artifacts with him. Since then, they’ve been sitting in the Finland museum.

“We took the remains back on Saturday from Helsinki all the way to Mesa Verde,” Pence said.

[skr]

Yet more proof that Trump is a racist. /sarc

[LegendHasIt]

Did Prescott Bush and his co-conspirators ever return Geronimo’s skull?

[TXnMA]

GGG Ping?

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[urbanpovertylawcenter]

What if the “remains” didn’t wanna go back. Did anyone think to check with them. Some have a morbid fear of flying.

[mad_as_he$$]

AIM was not available for comment.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Six hundred stolen Native American ancestral remains and artifacts,***

Stolen? How can you be accused of stealing something that has been permanently abandoned by the original owners hundreds of years ago?

[caseinpoint]

So should Europe be allowed to repatriate most of Hearst’s Castle?

[skr]

This isn’t about the original owners. The artifacts belong to the U.S., just as the Pyramids and their contents belong to Egypt.

[nicollo]

Indigenous cultures, like others across the glove, believe that the living have an eternal obligation to properly bury the dead lest they be themselves condemned in the afterlife.

This is no simple gesture: it is fulfillment of a cultural demand.