Newfoundland And Labrador: Repatriation Ceremony At Zoar Closes Sad Chapter In The History Of ...


Newfoundland And Labrador: Repatriation Ceremony At Zoar Closes Sad Chapter In The History Of Labrador Inuit   The remains of 22 Inuit taken from marked graves more than 80 years ago were repatriated today during a ceremony at the former Moravian mission site at Zoar, south of Nain.   The remains were removed from their original graves by anthropologist William Duncan Strong of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History during the Rawson-MacMillan Sub-Arctic Expedition of 1927-1928.   While the...

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