10-06-2017, 02:00 PM
(10-06-2017, 01:44 PM)KevinL Wrote: No matter which of the First Peoples left the artifacts in question, the law has been rightly set that anything found today is to be given to the aboriginal people in trust; they will determine for themselves the best location and oucome for the objects. To do anything else reverts us to the paternal colonial overbearance of the past.
I was just trying to understand the mechanism - "the aboriginal people" is not a legal entity. To turn items over to an aboriginal nation with no connection to the items seems odd to me as well. Where can the legal requirement be found?