Indigenous leaders urge HBC not to sell sacred artifacts

“These artifacts are not simply ‘valuable assets’ or one-of-a-kind collectibles, but pieces of living history, some of which may be sacred, stolen from First Nations or properly First Nations-owned.”

The Hudson’s Bay Company was incorporate in 1670 after King Charles II issued a Royal Charter giving it a monopoly on trade and commerce in the area around the Hudson Bay watershed. (Flickr/Seth Anderson)

This story was originally published in Alberta Native News.

Indigenous groups are cautioning against the Hudson’s Bay Company’s (HBC) intention to aucti…