Gilbert Whiteduck says the repatriation of Indigenous items from the Vatican museum is an important step towards reconciliation, but the handling of those items needs to be done in a manner that reflects their sacred nature.
βItβs not just a matter of taking an object from where it's sitting in the Vatican archives and museum and just moving them over,β said Whiteduck, the education director for Kitigan Zibi AnishinΔbeg.
βSome of these objects may very well be, depending on what it is, very sacred in themselves.
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