Marianne Jones, Jeff Bear

In their zeal to loot Haida cultural treasures from old vacated village sites, early explorers to Haida Gwaii took away grave goods and human remains, a questionable academic practice that continues to perplex Indigenous people today. The Haida Nation is active in the repatriation process and although encountering colonizer resistance, has been successful in brokering the return of these treasures along with human remains housed in museums. Here they prepare to rebury the remains of seven ancestors in Skidegate, British Columbia.