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A retired Manitoba archeologist is accusing the builders of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights of mistreating First Nations heritage.
Leigh Syms, former curator of archeology for the Manitoba Museum, said the national museum is being constructed on one of the richest sites in the province for aboriginal artifacts. Although the museum funded an excavation of the site last summer, Syms said it didn’t go far enough.
He said only two per cent of the artifacts buried at the site were recovered because the museum won’t foot the bill for a larger dig to retrieve and preserve the remains of aboriginal settlements that date back thousands of years.
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