How can we decolonize museums in Canada?

In recent years, the big conversation around museums has been about decolonization — as in, how can these institutions reckon with where certain cultural items in their collections truly belong?

For instance, Egyptians are asking the British Museum to return the Rosetta Stone and Indigenous communities across North America have called for human remains of their ancestors to be returned. 

In response to this ongoing discussion, museums like the Smithsonian and the Royal Ontario Museum have set up repatriation policies to navigate the process.

All this to say, it's a really interesting time for Janis Kahentóktha Monture to step into her new role as CEO of the Canadian Museums Association. She's the first Indigenous person to take on this job, and she joined host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to talk about implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 67th call to action, and efforts to repatriate cultural artifacts.

You can listen to the full discussion from today's show on CBC Listen or on our podcast, Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, available wherever you get your podcasts.