00:00Hundreds of ancestral remains back on Kaurna land, a sacred reburial long overdue.
00:10It's, in a way it's magic, you know, what we've come in and today, you know, the weather,
00:16well the spirits are with us, they're crying those tears of joy for us.
00:21Since colonisation, cultural institutions have been holding Aboriginal remains.
00:26At South Australia's museum alone, the remains of 577 Kaurna ancestors were kept in these storage boxes.
00:35It's a scary thing, repatriation, for our community, in the community, but now it's open.
00:43That's because the museum locked it up so tight.
00:46This is the fourth and final group of remains to be repatriated from the museum to the burial site Wangayata.
00:53The museum once again acknowledging the hurt caused to Kaurna people.
00:58It's been a hard road, you know, it really has.
01:01There's been a lot of, what we did as a museum, as an institution, created a lot of trauma.
01:05It is all something that's bringing us closer together.
01:09This repatriation follows decades of anguish and advocacy from the Kaurna community, but elders say the reburial ceremony marks just the start of a long journey with work underway to repatriate more ancestors from around the world.
01:25They hope to educate more young people by bringing them on overseas repatriations.
01:30You're going there for one purpose. You're going to get them all people and bring them on.
01:35This is home. It's such a beautiful place and it's home.
01:39A healing process for generations to come.
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