After 150 years, a prized box returns to an Indigenous nation in Canada: ‘I felt like royalty traveling with it’
by Leyland Cecco in Bella Bella from Environment | The Guardian on (#6YBM7)
The unlikely return of the bentwood box underscores the challenges facing Indigenous communities working to reclaim items raided from their lands
When the plane took off from Vancouver's airport, bound north for the Great Bear Rainforest, Qixitasu Elroy White felt giddy with excitement.
The plane traced a route along the Pacific Ocean and British Columbia's coast mountains, still snow-capped in late May.
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