May 6, 2007
Aborigines discuss return of human remains
Following many successes in their requests to the Natural History Museum, Australian Aboriginal groups are now focusing their campaign on other museums in the UK.
From:
Radio Australia
Aborigines discuss return of remains
Last Updated 05/05/2007, 06:54:25With the end in sight for negotiations over the return of Aboriginal remains from the British Natural History Museum, the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre is now focussed on other British institutions holding ancestral remains.
The centre’s delegates say they’ve reached a draft agreement with the museum which they hope will be signed off in London on Tuesday.
Delegate, Caroline Spotswood, says they’ll be flying to Scotland next week to talk to the Scottish National Museum, and they’re also hoping to talk to Oxford and Cambridge Universities during the trip.“Continuing the pressure that we’re not going to tolerate our ancestors remain on the other side of the world and that they should be brought home back to the community and laid to rest and their spirits are set free like we all deserve,” Ms Spotswood says.
- Scotland gives up Aboriginal Skull : January 21, 2008
- Aboriginal remains handed over by Natural History Museum : April 28, 2007
- Aboriginal bones go home : May 12, 2007
- Aboriginals ask for more artefacts to be returned : September 18, 2009
- Aboriginal artefacts not covered by the Human Tissue Act up for discussion : July 22, 2009
- Natural History Museum will not return Aboriginal remains : September 12, 2006
- Scotland hands back Aboriginal remains : July 8, 2008
- Has the British Museum “set the standard” for restitution? : September 15, 2006