Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier sat down in a taxi as she left a private tour of the Vatican Museums and fell deep into thought.
“We are in 2022 and our history is being stored and shown in other countries where nobody understands,” the retired chief of Okanese First Nation in Saskatchewan pondered out loud Tuesday.
“Those items, those artifacts, those are ours. Those belong in our communities. They belong to people. They belong to generations.”
Which is why people have museums in the first place.
These items were donated to the Vatican Museum (which houses art and artifacts from several countries and civilisations). Where would they be housed and be of use and benefit if not in a museum?
But, please - take these items. ALL OF THEM. Let them be lost somewhere and let future generations never hear of the tribes now spelled with numerals.
One cannot talk sense to the irrational.
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