The remains, buried around the 1800s, were excavated and brought to Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History in the late 1950s. Anaktuvuk Pass residents recently traveled to Connecticut to bring their ancestor home.
The community of Anaktuvuk Pass greets the group who on Oct. 29, 2022, brought the remains and artifacts taken from an ancient burial in the ‘60s. The group traveled to Yale Peabody University in Connecticut to bring the remains back home.
“We were just happy and overjoyed to bring him back to his homelands,” Sollie Hugo said. “The land is slowly trying to be healed by returning our ancestors back to where they came from.”When Sollie Hugo was a little boy, he used to walk by a burial site at the Brooks Range foothills, with a skull and trade beads showing above ground. Following tradition, he would walk around the site to not disturb the ancestor lying there. He thinks this was the ancestor they just brought back.
When a person is buried with all his objects, Sollie Hugo said, in Nunamiut culture, it normally means that he’s a medicine man. “That was really important for us because our ancestor had been in that Indigenous region,” Riley said. “One of our values that we have is when we go to theirDuring the ceremony, Riley said she was talking to the ancestor to welcome him back home.
To this day, Riley said she needs to deal with painful memories by keeping herself busy, connecting to her culture and staying emotionally grounded. The group transported most of the remains and artifacts in a pre-packaged, airtight suitcase as a carry-on without attracting much attention from passengers.
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