Repatriation: Returning Remains

Broadcast on Jun 17th, 2004

Arts & Humanities Media

The remains of several Australian aborigines will be returned to their native land this week. The bones were given recently to University of Michigan anthropologists, who arranged the repatriation. As Michigan Radio's Tracy Samilton reports, the process of repatriation is often a rocky compromise between the needs of scientists and native people.

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Reporter:: Tracy Samilton
Interviewees:: Ted Bailey, boomerang inventor and collector
John O'Shea, University of Michigan Curator of Great Lakes Archeology
C. Loring Brace, University of Michigan anthropologist
Bonnie Eckdall, Director, Zibawing Cultural Society Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe
Bob Weatherall, aboriginee