Where colonization sought to sever these relationships, rematriation centers Indigenous women, matrilineal knowledge systems, and cultural continuity to heal what was disrupted, displaced, or violently stolen.
The term itself challenges the dominant colonial concept of “repatriation,” which often frames the return of objects or remains to Tribal communities as a bureaucratic or institutional gesture.
This edition of the quarterly Cultural Survival issue highlights examples of those working tirelessly to reverse colonisation’s negative impacts and return home that which belongs to indigenous communities for past, present, and future generations.
This interesting quarterly magazine not only has stories about rematriating sacred woven baskets and buffalo-shaped wooden tombs, but even more so about the need for ancestors to come home.
