{"id":34347,"date":"2021-07-24T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/24\/a-turning-point-new-zealand-museums-grapple-with-return-of-stolen-maori-remains"},"modified":"2021-07-24T05:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T20:00:04","slug":"a-turning-point-new-zealand-museums-grapple-with-return-of-stolen-maori-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34347","title":{"rendered":"A turning point: New Zealand museums grapple with return of stolen M\u0101ori remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand has long fought to have indigenous remains held overseas returned \u2013 now it\u2019s reckoning with its own colonial legacy<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, \u0100whina Twomey received a phone call from a friend and member of her Rangit\u0101ne o Wairau iwi (tribe), asking if she could be in the South Island by 4am the following Saturday. She baulked at the early start, but then she heard the reason: Canterbury Museum had agreed to repatriate her t\u016bpuna (ancestors), or k\u014diwi tangata (ancestral remains) to her iwi.<\/p>\n<p>It had taken the iwi 60 years of battling the museum, and now their ancestors were coming home.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/24\/a-turning-point-new-zealand-museums-grapple-with-return-of-stolen-maori-remains\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand has long fought to have indigenous remains held overseas returned \u2013 now it\u2019s reckoning with its own colonial legacyIn 2009, \u0100whina Twomey received a phone call from a friend and member of her Rangit\u0101ne o Wairau iwi (tribe), asking if she co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34348,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34347\/revisions\/34348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}