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Friday, October 10, 2003

Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History will hand over remains of Haida ancestors to the Haida First Nation of British Columbia this weekend.

The museum has 140 bones, skulls and some nearly intact bodies. They were taken from a Haida village on Queen Charlotte Islands in the late 1890s and early 1900s.

The Native Americans Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) doesn't apply to tribes outside the U.S. but the museum agreed to repatriate the remains.

The Haida First Nation says is trying to recover ancestors from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but is meeting resistance.

Get the Story:
Haida tribe of B.C. on quest to reclaim remains of ancestors (AP 10/10)
Haida ready to reclaim remains (CBC 10/10)
Haida leaving for Chicago to retrieve human remains from Field Museum (CP 10/9)

Relevant Links:
Field Museum - http://www.fmnh.org

Related Stories:
Haida First Nation preparing to bring ancestors home (09/09)

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