British museum to return Aboriginal remains

If this were my great,great,great grandmother I would want her back at home and decently buried too.

clipped from wbztv.com LONDON (AP) A second British museum has agreed to return Aboriginal remains to Australia, including bones collected by explorers in 1849. National Museums Liverpool said it has decided to turn over the remains of three bodies, unconditionally fulfilling a request made by Australia in January 2006. The pledge follows a much more controversial dispute between Tasmanian Aborigines and the Natural History Museum in London for the return of 17 remains. After a 20-year dispute that involved a lawsuit, teeth, skulls and skeletons looted in the 19th century from Tasmania, an island south of Australia were turned over to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Center in May. Two American Indian tribes have also submitted demands. Since 1996, more than 1,000 Indigenous remains have been returned to Australia from other countries.