Posted on 11/15/2025 5:37:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Saturday returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of the Catholic Church’s reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture in the Americas.
Pope Leo XIV gave the artifacts, including an iconic Inuit kayak, and supporting documentation to a delegation of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops during an audience. According to a joint statement from the Vatican and Canadian church, the pieces were a gift and a “concrete sign of dialogue, respect and fraternity.”
The items were part of the Vatican Museum’s ethnographic collection, known as the Anima Mundi museum. The collection has been a source of controversy for the Vatican amid the broader museum debate over the restitution of cultural goods taken from Indigenous peoples during colonial periods.
Most of the items in the Vatican collection were sent to Rome by Catholic missionaries for a 1925 exhibition in the Vatican gardens that was a highlight of that year’s Holy Year.
But historians, Indigenous groups and experts have long questioned whether the items could really have been offered freely, given the power imbalances at play in Catholic missions at the time. In those years, Catholic religious orders were helping to enforce the Canadian government’s forced assimilation policy of eliminating Indigenous traditions, which Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has called “cultural genocide.”
Part of that policy included confiscating items used in Indigenous spiritual and traditional rituals, such as the 1885 potlatch ban that prohibited the integral First Nations ceremony. Those confiscated items ended up in museums in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, as well as private collections.
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We get Canada and they get their beads back... Sounds like a good deal.
I wish he would help us return those 20 million indigenous artifacts back to south of the border from America. The maggots blame the rising cost of everything on President Trump. They’ve never heard of supply and demand. Joe Pedo increased the population of the United States by 20 million freeloaders who rely on a Socialist government for their survival. Those crap holes south of the border started to collapse and they had to cull the herd and run off a large amount of their useless population. Joe Pedo needs his but kicked. These increased prices of everything are his fault.
lol ping.
Cue the pic of him blessing the block of ice.
No doubt Woke Pope II will not be returning the many items the Vatican holds that are from Herod’s Temple to the indigenous Jews in Jerusalem.
Are those “indigenous people” going to return the bodies of all the Catholic missionaries they tortured and killed?
More empty virtue signaling by this phoney heretic.
You forgot about the millions of disgusting mooselimbs who ave brought us honor killings and a wave of criminal fraud schemes never seen anywhere beofor.
Who speaks for the original indigenous people whose histories and cultures were obliterated by the invaders from Asia and Siberia that are currently referred to as native Americans?
We Jews would like our stolen religious artifacts returned, too. After all, in many ways the Church is the successor to the Roman Empire, which took MANY things from my people and carted them off to that blood-soaked city.
I won’t be holding my breath for that to happen.
Bows, arrow, pointed sticks? What kind of historical crap was everyone getting so worked up about? Guessing it’s not like Renaissance art.
Bows, arrow, pointed sticks?
Fresh fruit?
They were given freely by the Natives to missionaries who likely saw the missionaries as kind and helpful. This history is ignored. Today the Natives have created a contemporary narrative of power imbalance and abuse and taken these gifts back.
Hence the name, 'Indian Giver'.
The pope is apologizing for bringing the gospel to native Americans
Sounds like he’s cleaning out the vatican garage...”Sheesh, what is all this accumulated crap? Let’s just get rid of it.”
“20 million freeloaders who rely on a Socialist government for their survival. “
I thought we were cutting off their benefits. My town looks like Mexico City and they’re not scared at all.
Yes, and a hell of a lot more than 62. Where the hell is our Golden Menora that was looted from the Temple? The evidence is carved in stone that it is in Rome somewhere.
That "reckoning" can start with the Indignant Indigenous relinquishing all technologies and innovation brought to them - no horses, no pens, pencils, electricity, glasses, medicine, cars, plastic, oil, etc.
Let them go back to their "great" ways.
Make room for more prayer rugs at the Vatican?
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