The Vatican has returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, marking a significant step in acknowledging its past. These items are expected to arrive in Montreal on December 6, signaling a moment of cultural restoration and renewed dialogue.

Archaeologists and collectors once dug up over 1,700 Native American remains from burial grounds in Louisiana during the 19th and 20th centuries. Today, many of these ancestral remains are still waiting to be returned to their rightful communities.