Indigenous Remains Repatriated By The Netherlands To Caribbean Island Of St. Eustatius - | The World News [hot]

The formal request for their return was spearheaded by the Culture Department of St. Eustatius. Following roughly a year of deliberation by the Dutch government, the first group of nine ancestral remains was repatriated in March 2023. A final handover of three additional individuals was completed by late 2023, concluding a decades-long effort to bring these ancestors home. Restoring Dignity and Cultural Heritage

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It took nearly 300 years, but justice has made landfall on The Golden Rock. A final handover of three additional individuals was

After three years of negotiations, the remains of three individuals were officially handed over to representatives of the St. Eustatius government and the Indigenous Kalinago Council. During the ceremony in Leiden, Dutch State Secretary for Culture and Media, Gunay Uslu, issued a formal apology. “For centuries, the Netherlands collected and retained human remains without the consent of their descendants,” she stated. “We took not only bones but dignity. Today, we begin to return what was never ours to take.” It took nearly 300 years, but justice has