Chief concerned about artifacts First Nations don’t know about being held by museums

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Chief concerned about artifacts First Nations don’t know about being held by museums

A treaty medallion on its original leather strap has returned home to the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) in northern Alberta. “It was significant in a way that when you look at (it as) a medallion that was given based on the fact of treaty signing. To have it returned to our nation, not a replica, the original one, makes it even more significant because of that history it has behind it,” said ACFN Chief Allan Adam. The treaty medallion …