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SFU museum returns Indigenous artifacts to the north

A collection of Indigenous artifacts from the museum at Simon Fraser University was officially repatriated to its home communities at a ceremony on National Aboriginal Day last week. The Tse’K’wa artifacts are part of the Donaldson collection held by the university museum and brought home to the Treaty 8 Tribal Association in the Peace River region in northeastern BC. “It’s pretty exciting,” said Diane Abel, the director of administration with Treaty 8. “We have been working towards trying to get an interpretive centre established in one of our historic sites, so basically this is the first large repatriation.” The repatriation…

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