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London museum returns Indigenous Australians' remains
By Yiying Li

The remains of six Indigenous people are being returned to the Woppaburra, Warrgamay, Wuthathi, and Yadhighana communities in Queensland, while another 30 sets of remains are under the Australian government's stewardship while their traditional custodians are identified.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-12/fir

ABC News · Britain's Natural History Museum returns Indigenous Australians' remainsBy Yiying Li
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🚨🚨 🚨 "RULE PASSES — Speaker Johnson clears procedural hurdle for budget resolution: 216-215. Thomas Massie of Kentucky
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Mike Turner of Ohio

I'm told Turner voted no after Johnson put language in the rule to cut off members' ability to disapprove of tariffs.
-J Sherman

*The resolution includes the provision preventing any House member from filing a disapproval res on Trump's tariffs through Sept 30. h/t J Bendery

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@paulbusch Interesting bit of history — thanks for sharing.

It's especially disturbing because that land was never HBC's to sell to anyone, either from an Indigenous or a settler perspective.

While HBC had a colonial trading monopoly over the territory, even under exploitative settler law, it was (and to a large extent, is) Indigenous land according to the 1763 Royal Proclamation, which still has legal force in Canada.

www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.caThe Royal Proclamation of 1763Indigenous history in Canada. The Royal Proclamation is a foundational document in the relationship between First Nations people and the Crown and laid the basis for Canada's territorial evolution.