The Bright Side: Vatican to return dozens of artifacts to Canada’s indigenous communities

October 22, 2025

The Vatican is expected to announce it will return dozens of items “gifted” to the church by Canada’s indigenous communities during the colonial period. The artifacts, most of which have been kept in the Vatican Museum’s ethnographic collection for almost 100 years, include an Inuit kayak.

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