Austrian museum returns Indigenous bones to New Zealand

The World

The remains of scores of Indigenous Maori and Moriori people began a journey home to New Zealand on Tuesday. Host Marco Werman tells the story of their return from Austria, part of a growing movement among the world’s museums to repatriate human remains looted during the colonial period and kept in storage or on display for over a century.

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