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Austria returns Indigenous remains to New Zealand
WELLINGTON: The remains of dozens of Indigenous Maori and Moriori people were officially received at New Zealand’s national museum in Wellington on Sunday, completing a repatriation process from Austria, where the bones have resided for more than 130 years.The repatriation “powhiri”, or welcoming ceremony, in bitterly cold, wet conditions at Te Papa concluded when the remains of about 64 Maori and Moriori -- the Indigenous people of mainland New Zealand and the Chatham Islands -- were taken to the museum’s Rongomaraeroa Marae, a sacred resting place.The event completed a six-day journey for the remains, which left from the Natural History Museum in Vienna.Records show that most of the bones,

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