Pope returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of reckoning with colonial past

The Vatican has returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada. This move is part of the Catholic Church’s effort to ...

Vatican returns dozens of indigenous artefacts to Canada

The Vatican has returned 62 indigenous artefacts to Canada, 100 years after they were taken from tribes to appear in a ...

Vatican to return Indigenous cultural items to Canada taken a century ago

The items’ return began as part of a process in which Pope Francis apologized to Indigenous people in 2022 for the church’s ...
America Magazine

Pope Leo returns Indigenous artifacts from Vatican Museums to Canada

Pope Leo XIV fulfilled a promise made by the late Pope Francis to return to Canada’s Indigenous communities ...

Pope returns dozens of Indigenous artifacts to Canada

An Inuit kayak, war clubs and masks were among the items handed over to Canadian bishops, who vowed to transfer them to ...
America Magazine

Pope Leo fulfills Francis’ promise: 62 Indigenous artifacts returned to Canada

In a historic moment in the long journey of reconciliation between the Catholic Church and the Indigenous peoples of Canada, ...

Pope returns 62 Canadian Indigenous people's artifacts after 100 years

Pope Leo XIV gifted 62 Indigenous people's artifacts held for more than 100 years by the Vatican to leaders of the Canadian ...

Vatican returns Indigenous cultural items to Canada's Catholic bishops on a 'historic day'

A century-old Inuvialuit kayak once used for beluga and whale hunts, and 61 other cultural objects from First Nations, Métis ...

Vatican returns to Canada artefacts connected to Indigenous people

Catholic missionaries sent the artefacts to Rome on the occasion of a 1925 exhibition held by Pope Pius XI that displayed ...
The Journal

Pope returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada

The Vatican on Saturday returned 62 artifacts from its vast ethnographic collection to Indigenous peoples in Canada, part of ...

Vatican returns contested Indigenous artifacts to Canada after 100 years

Part of that policy included confiscating items used in Indigenous spiritual and traditional rituals, such as the 1885 ...
National Catholic Reporter

Pope returns Indigenous artifacts from Vatican Museums to Canada

The items were sent to Rome by Catholic missionaries between 1923 and 1925. They include an Inuit kayak, masks, moccasins and ...