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By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News (ANNews) \u2013 Indigenous groups are cautioning against the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company\u2019s (HBC) intention to auction off its collection of thousands of pieces of art and artifacts, which could include items of cultural, historical and spiritual importance for First Nations in Canada. \u201cThe HBC\u2019s legacy is inseparable from the post-contact history of the original peoples on this land,\u201d Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) Grand Chief Kyra Wilson wrote in an April 22 letter to HBC, which filed for bankruptcy in March. \u201cThese artifacts are not simply \u2018valuable assets\u2019 or one-of-a-kind collectibles, but pieces of living history, some of which may be sacred, stolen from First Nations or properly First Nations-owned.\u201d As part of its efforts to pay back $1 billion it… <\/p>\n

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By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News (ANNews) \u2013 Indigenous groups are cautioning against the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company\u2019s (HBC) intention to auction off its collection of thousands of pieces of art and artifacts, which could include items of cultural, historical and spiritual importance for First Nations in Canada. \u201cThe HBC\u2019s legacy is inseparable from the post-contact history of the original peoples on this land,\u201d Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) Grand Chief Kyra Wilson wrote in an April 22 letter to HBC, which filed for bankruptcy in March. \u201cThese artifacts are not simply \u2018valuable assets\u2019 or one-of-a-kind collectibles, but pieces of living history, some of which may be sacred, stolen from First Nations or properly First Nations-owned.\u201d As part of its efforts to pay back $1 billion it... <\/p>\n

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