"The Vatican returned 62 Indigenous artifacts to Canada on Saturday. The items included an Inuit kayak, wampum belts, war clubs and masks, many of which had been held in Vatican museums for 100 years or more. "Every single one of those artifacts are sacred items there, crucial for the healing journey for many residential school survivors," Bobby Cameron, chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations in Saskatchewan, told Canadian public broadcaster CBC earlier this year."
""The CCCB will proceed, as soon as possible, to transfer these artifacts to the National Indigenous Organizations (NIOs). The NIOs will then ensure that the artifacts are reunited with their communities of origin," the Canadian bishops said in a statement. How did the items end up in Rome? Catholic missionaries in Canada sent the artifacts to the Vatican during a period of cultural suppression, forced conversions and abuse within the residential school system for Indigenous children."
Sixty-two Indigenous artifacts, including an Inuit kayak, wampum belts, war clubs and masks, were returned by the Vatican to Canada. Many items had been held in Vatican museums for a century or more and are considered sacred and important to the healing of residential school survivors. The Vatican handed the artifacts to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), which pledged to transfer them to National Indigenous Organizations (NIOs) for reunion with communities of origin. Missionary-era collectors sent many items to Rome, including pieces from a 1925 exhibition and earlier donations, and some have criticized church-to-church restitution.
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