University of Edinburgh repatriates ancestral remains of Paiwan fighters in ‘milestone of transitional justice for Indigenous peoples’
The skulls of four tribal warriors killed nearly 150 years ago have been returned by a Scottish university to a Taiwanese Indigenous community in a move hailed as a “milestone of transitional justice”.
The council’s minister, Icyang Parod, said he hoped the community could find solace and healing from the repatriation. The remains were from four warriors from Mudan township, which is predominantly populated by the Paiwan people, the second-largest Indigenous group in Taiwan, according to the university.by a US navy officer who had accompanied the Japanese as a military adviser in the 1874 conflict and were eventually given to University of Edinburgh principal William Turner in 1907.
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