Yes, it definitely is. This is a big healing. It's a chance for all these artifacts....
I wanted to propose concrete steps to moving forward, especially when an institution has an artifact and it's proposed that it be repatriated to a home community or an interested community. In our instance—say, if it were this bag we were looking for—I would propose from the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, because we have a workshop and because of the way our foundation is laid out, that we have a display of the past for the museum, a contemporary art space for the present, and an open studio for craftspeople for the future.
If there were a piece like this that we were interested in, I would like to see the piece come back and be examined by our craftspeople, and that we would create a replica and then return the replica to the institution it was repatriated from. In that way that community would have a more engaged understanding of the artifact they have returned home and we would create a relationship between our institutions and perhaps learn how they do their caretaking and their museological studies and all of that kind of thing.