Sámi group asks Swedish museum to return human remains held in archives
Uppsala’s Gustavianum is one of 11 museums known to hold disinterred Sámi skeletons.
November 11, 2020
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A Sámi group in Uppsala, Sweden, is calling for the skeletal remains of 29 people disinterred in the 19th and early 20th centuries for use in scientific study to be removed from the archives of a museum and handed over for burial.
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