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  • Natural History museum in New York City returns ancestral remains to Canadian tribe

    By Deepti Hajela
    New York, New York (AP)

    For one Canadian native tribe’s members, the history they found at the museum was their own.

    Members of the Tseycum First Nation visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York City during June to reclaim the remains of ancestors taken from their land about a century ago.

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