Peter Goffin
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And... Dragon, SpaceX, we see splashdown.
On behalf of SpaceX and NASA, welcome home, crew 11.
Dragon, SpaceX, we see splashdown.
SpaceX copies and we see the same.
Mains cut.
On behalf of SpaceX and NASA, welcome home, Crew 11.
The amount of victims in such a short time was unbelievable.
First Nations, Inuit, and Métis leaders in traditional buckskins, feathered headdresses, and beads gathered on the snowy tarmac of the Montreal airport as 62 artifacts arrived from Rome.
Most of the pieces had been taken by the Catholic Church between 1923 and 1925, after Pope Pius XI called on missionaries around the world to collect indigenous artifacts for a special Vatican exhibition.
Some have spent decades in storage.
Others were displayed in Vatican museums, including gloves embroidered with the ornate floral designs of the Cree people and a sealskin kayak used by the Inuit to hunt whales in the far north.
The artifacts will be taken to the Canadian Museum of History near Ottawa to be unpacked and examined by experts before long-term homes are found for them.
Katisha Paul, from the Union of British Columbia Chiefs, was part of the delegation that flew with the items.
The Catholic Church has long been criticized for its role in what many Canadians see as the destruction of indigenous culture.
It was a driving force behind the early colonization of Canada by French explorers and missionaries.
And beginning in the 1870s, the church operated dozens of indigenous boarding schools on behalf of the Canadian government, part of a scheme to take indigenous children from their families and forcibly assimilate them into white culture.
A Truth and Reconciliation Commission has found that physical and sexual abuse at these residential schools was rife.
In 2022, Pope Francis apologised for the church's actions.
I humbly beg forgiveness, he said, for the evil committed by so many Christians against the indigenous peoples.
It's a small film about a subculture that's not often depicted on screen, especially not in this way.