Directory of organisations

Te Papa Tongarewa’s programme coordinating the repatriation of Māori and Moriori ancestors from institutions in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas.

• Māori
• Moriori
• repatriation

A global initiative offering tools that enable Indigenous communities to express cultural authority in heritage collections and data.

• Indigenous data sovereignty
• cultural authority

A community-led project developing tools to manage, share and exchange digital heritage in culturally relevant and ethical ways.

• digital heritage
• community platforms

An Africa-led project opening access to information on the restitution of cultural objects and ancestors to support informed decisions.

• Africa
• research
• restitution

A museum network sharing research and advice to identify kōiwi in collections and support their repatriation.

• Aotearoa New Zealand
• research network

A national project supporting museums, iwi, hapū and other communities to return kōiwi tūpuna to descendant communities.

• Māori
• kōiwi tūpuna

An initiative supporting communities to find and return ancestors taken to museums, and to renew relationships with Country.

• Australia
• ancestors
• repatriation

An interdisciplinary research project on re-emerging Indigeneities and the renegotiation of postcolonial legacies in Europe.

• research
• Indigeneity
• Europe

An initiative developing Rapa Nui–Spanish machine translation with the Rapa Nui Language Academy ꞌUmaŋa Hatu Reꞌo, the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and UC Applied Anthropology Studies.

• rapa nui
• language
• translation

A not-for-profit resource with news, commentary and an international archive on cultural restitution debates and initiatives.

• research
• archive
• visibility

An alliance of organisations and activists advocating critical engagement with the history and present of colonialism and racism.

• Berlin
• decolonisation
• civil society

A portal bringing together information on the location of objects from colonial contexts in German cultural institutions.

• Germany
• database
• transparency

An Indigenous-led organisation creating maps that challenge and expand how we understand lands, peoples and their histories.

• Indigenous lands
• maps