Repatriation of ancient remains has to be a Naga process

Subject :History

Section: Art and Culture

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Speaking of repatriating ancestral human remains, taken away as trophies of colonialism, it took the Maoris 12 years.
In the case of other aboriginal peoples, it has taken decades.
For the Naga people, the journey is only beginning, in the shape of a project to repatriate Naga ancestral human remains from the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University.

RRaD (Recover, Restore and Decolonise)

RRaD (Recover, Restore and Decolonise) was formed in 2021 to facilitate and engage with issues around the repatriation of Naga ancestral human remains to the Naga homeland.
In 2020, the Pitt Rivers Museum (PRM) in Oxford, UK, reached out to the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) to help facilitate community dialogue regarding the “future care and return” of Naga ancestral human remains.
As part of this process, the FNR formed Recover Restore and Decolonise (RRaD) to study and network with indigenous elders, conduct participatory action research, generate public awareness, and develop a strong viable case to make an official claim to the University of Oxford for returning the Naga human remains.